Categories

We get category members via Mediawiki API:Categorymembers:

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Categorymembers
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace

You can enumerate category members via wptools.category() with a category title or pageid, and filter by namespace (0=article, 14=category). You can still get page attributes for a category via wptools.page().

>>> import wptools
>>> cat = wptools.category('Category:Book censorship')
Category:Book_censorship (en)
{
  lang: en
  title: Category:Book_censorship
}

>>> cat.get_members()
en.wikipedia.org (category) Category:Book_censorship
Category:Book_censorship (en)
{
  cache: <dict(1)> {category}
  lang: en
  members: <list(29)>
  title: Category:Book_censorship
}
<wptools.category.WPToolsCategory object at 0x10b7069d0>

>>> cat.members
[{u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 34848597, u'title': u'Book censorship'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 2152, u'title': u'All Quiet on the Western Front'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 256150, u'title': u'Areopagitica'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 21038012, u'title': u'Lists of banned books'},
 {u'ns': 0,
  u'pageid': 154362,
  u'title': u'List of books banned by governments'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 3082648, u'title': u'Bhavsagar Granth'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 152534, u'title': u'Book burning'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 7950296, u'title': u"Burger's Daughter"},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 17456816, u'title': u'Challenge (literature)'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 51459657, u'title': u'Enfer'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 40262572, u'title': u'Forbidden Passages'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 5113197, u'title': u'Himalayan Blunder'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 20270173, u'title': u'How to Read Donald Duck'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 39580194, u'title': u"The Imam's Army"},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 154374, u'title': u'Index Librorum Prohibitorum'},
 {u'ns': 0,
  u'pageid': 3614167,
  u'title': u'Japanese history textbook controversies'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 31427769, u'title': u'Kiwix'},
 {u'ns': 0,
  u'pageid': 48637164,
  u'title': u'Korean history textbook controversies'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 1595627, u'title': u'Licensing Order of 1643'},
 {u'ns': 0,
  u'pageid': 18752554,
  u'title': u'List of authors and works on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum'},
 {u'ns': 0,
  u'pageid': 2636119,
  u'title': u'List of authors banned in Nazi Germany'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 30697107, u'title': u'List of book-burning incidents'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 1419781, u'title': u'I Modi'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 4333628, u'title': u'Pierre Marteau'},
 {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 680053, u'title': u'The Second Sex'},
 {u'ns': 0,
  u'pageid': 39393656,
  u'title': u"What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works"},
 {u'ns': 14,
  u'pageid': 34884698,
  u'title': u'Category:Book censorship by country'},
 {u'ns': 14, u'pageid': 39616380, u'title': u'Category:Book burnings'},
 {u'ns': 14, u'pageid': 49633399, u'title': u'Category:Samizdat publications'}]