wikipedia-airports

# Wikipedia Airports Use Wikipedia as a **route discovery and sanity-check source** for airport destinations. This is especially useful when: - an airport page has an **Airlines and destinations** section - an airline's own city-pair marketing pages confirm service patterns - flight search tools disagree about whether a route exists Wikipedia is **not a booking source** and not a real-time schedule source. Use it to discover likely routes, then confirm them with airline or fare tools. ## Best Use Cases - "What destinations does SAN serve?" - "Does Southwest fly SAN -> EUG?" - "What airports can I use for a late split return?" - "Which airline serves this small airport nonstop?" ## Workflow ### 1. Resolve the airport page from an IATA code Use Wikipedia search with the airport code plus the word `airport`. ```bash curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=SAN+airport&format=json" \ | jq '.query.search[0:5][] | {title}' ``` Usually the first result is the airport page, e.g. `San Diego International Airport`. ### 2. Fetch the page Use the readable page HTML or the wikitext parse API. ```bash curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=San_Diego_International_Airport&prop=wikitext&formatversion=2&format=json" \ | jq -r '.parse.wikitext' ``` Or fetch the rendered page: ```bash curl -Ls "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_International_Airport" ``` ### 3. Look for route sections Search for headings like...