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Wikipedia Article Table to API - Every Wikipedia article table is now an API

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Paste in a link to any Wikipedia article which contains some tables and it will create a fully working JSON REST API for each table within the article.

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Maker
Hi all, this is a free tool I created for fun really. Paste in a link to any Wikipedia article which contains some tables and it will create a fully working JSON REST API for each table within the article.
neat! Thanks for sharing!
this is really cool! Will save tone of time for many developers.
Maker
Thanks. Although this is basically a 'toy' tool. It makes you think, there must be so much data being maintained by people in all these tables on Wikipedia. You could probably use it for a real product (so long as the Wiki page it's linked to is well looked after)
Cool idea! I tried it with () and it seemed to only find 1/3 tables that are on that page though.
Maker
Some tables on Wikipedia aren't in a format where it can work (without me doing more work than I want to). E.g. "Appearances and goals by club, season and competition" on that page. That's life.
Fair enough
First I've tried it on a list of rocket launches, but it tells me there is no table on this page (). It looks really cool regardles, and I'm looking forward to it supporting more complicated table layouts! Maybe fuse the data from Semantic wiki?
Maker
Those tables are in an incompatible format, by chance.
Poor luck, that was really my first try :P Could your api possibly use wikidata in the future? I think most of the tables are generated from wikidata anyways.
Quite nifty.
great idea!
A neat experiment, and a nice little peephole into a future when literally everything in Wikipedia is sourced from an underlying knowledgebase. Some day...