Getting the URL of a random wikipedia page

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Hi All

I have made a little patch that get a random wikipedia article using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random and shows a QR code with a link to that article. this happens as fast as I can get vvvv to get the info using HTTP (Network GET).
It works fine with me finding the title of the article in the received html and reconstructing the URL from that.

But I was wondering if it is possible to just get the URL of the randomly found wiki article without downloading the whole article itself?

-sunep

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ai sune,

check the wikipedia api. here the part on random page retrieval.

test implementation attatched.

randomwikipage.v4p (9.3 kB)