Last modified: 2008-01-24 21:22:41 UTC
If you try to get a specific page title using the API, the query action method won't return any results if the title searched contains a space. If you try to get the following page: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Villeneuve Using: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&redirects&format=xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=jacques_villeneuve or http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&redirects&format=xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=jacques_villeneuve You get no results Same for: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Villeneuve Using http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&redirects&format=xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=gilles_villeneuve or http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&redirects&format=xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=gilles_villeneuve But, if you try this one: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley Again, you will not get any results using http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&redirects&format=xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=elvis_presley but if you using this search query instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&redirects&format=xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=elvis_presley then you get the following: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley What's missing? Note that I tried replacing the space character with a "_", a "+" or a "%20" to no avail. Tried to enclose the searched title in quotes and it didn't work either.
Ps: in case this is known, I appologize. I did search through Google to find any instance of this issue and couldn't find anything directly related.
You should use captials: Jacques_Villeneuve , not jacques_villeneuve (which is in fact a different page).
