title: How to retrieve biographical information of a person using Wikipedia's web API?
body: <p>I am working on retrieving some particular bio details of a person from a Wikipedia page of that person through Wikipedia's web API.</p>
  
  <p>I need to retrieve the bio information box of a person.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iBLBW.png" alt="Bio information of Mark Babic"></p>
  
  <p>I found how to retrieve the content box , introduction paragraph and all. The below URL is used to retrieve the first introduction para of the wiki web page.</p>
  
  <pre><code>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&amp;action=query&amp;prop=extracts&amp;exintro=&amp;explaintext=&amp;titles=Sachin_Tendulkar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I am stuck with getting the above bio information box through wiki web API, so that I could extract the specific  details I want.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to get a single item of information like only the full name or only the date of birth through a single query (instead of getting the whole information and extracting the details from it)?</p>