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Wikipedia / Full article text as plain text

The whole text of one English Wikipedia article as plain text (no markup, section titles kept as lines), resolving redirects. Answer: query.pages[0] with pageid, title and extract (the text), plus query.redirects when the title was a redirect. A long article is 50 to 150 KB. A title with no article answers pages[0].missing true (completed, $0). Pass up to 1 title. Text from English Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0: when you show or reuse it, credit Wikipedia, link the article and say if you changed it; reused text stays CC BY-SA. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Free, no key.

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Request parameters

action query · optional
Fixed at query. Leave it out.
explaintext query · optional
Fixed at 1. Leave it out.
exsectionformat query · optional
Fixed at plain. Leave it out.
format query · optional
Fixed at json. Leave it out.
formatversion query · optional
Fixed at 2. Leave it out.
prop query · optional
Fixed at extracts. Leave it out.
redirects query · optional
Fixed at 1. Leave it out.
titles query · required
One article title, e.g. Albert Einstein.

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