Extract table data from Wikipedia - wikipedia-api

Question

is there any way to extract only table data I am trying to extract a table from the specific section "Grade One" from this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_racing_circuits_by_FIA_grade using Api sandbox but I am getting only the whole content of the page.
this is the URL from the API sandbox which gives me all content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=parse&format=json&page=List%20of%20motor%20racing%20circuits%20by%20FIA%20grade&prop=text

Answer 1

I followed the steps I described in my answer in order to get the data you want.
This is the URL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=parse&format=json&page=List%20of%20motor%20racing%20circuits%20by%20FIA%20grade&prop=sections%7Ctext&section=1&disablelimitreport=1&utf8=1
The output contains the table and the text in the "Grade One" section.
This is the API Sandbox example.
Response:
{
"parse": {
"title": "List of motor racing circuits by FIA grade",
"pageid": 57151782,
"text": {
"*": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\"><h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Grade_One\">Grade One</span><span class=\"mw-editsection\"><span class=\"mw-editsection-bracket\">[</span>edit<span class=\"mw-editsection-bracket\">]</span></span></h2>\n<p>There are 40 Grade One circuits for a total of 49 layouts in 27 nations as of December 2021. Circuits holding Grade One certification may host events involving \"Automobiles of Groups D (FIA International Formula) and E (Free Formula) with a weight/power ratio of less than 1 kg/hp.\"<sup id=\"cite_ref-ISC2019_1-0\" class=\"reference\">[1]</sup> As such, a Grade One certification is required to host events involving Formula One cars.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\">[2]</sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-2021_December_list_3-0\" class=\"reference\">[3]</sup>\n</p>\n<table class=\"wikitable sortable\" width=\"75%\" style=\"font-size: 95%;\">\n<tbody><tr>\n<th>Circuit\n</th>\n<th>Location\n</th>\n<th>Country\n</th>\n<th>Layout\n</th>\n<th>Length\n</th>\n<th>Continent\n</th></tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Albert Park Circuit\n</td>\n<td>Melbourne\n</td>\n<td><span class=\"flagicon\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"23\" height=\"12\" class=\"thumbborder\" srcset=\"//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x\" data-file-width=\"1280\" data-file-height=\"640\" /> </span>Australia\n</td>\n<td>Grand Prix\n</td>\n<td>5.279 km (3.280 mi)\n</td>\n<td>Australia\n</td></tr>\n<tr>[...the rest of the table is shown here]"
},
"sections": [
{
"toclevel": 1,
"level": "2",
"line": "Grade One",
"number": "1",
"index": "1",
"fromtitle": "List_of_motor_racing_circuits_by_FIA_grade",
"byteoffset": 0,
"anchor": "Grade_One"
}
]
}
}
I can't see how you can return the table only, so, you have to extract the table from the API response (by using a script).