sql - How to get all article pages under a Wikipedia Category and its sub-categories?

Question

I want to get all the articles names under a category and its sub-categories.

Options I'm aware of:

1. Using the Wikipedia API. Does it have such an option??
2. d/l the dump. Which format would be better for my usage?
3. There is also an option to search in Wikipedia something like incategory:"music", but I didn't see an option to view that in XML.

Please share your thoughts

Answer 1

The following resource will help you to download all pages from the category and all its subcategories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CatScan

There is also an API available here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Categorymembers