Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-39119615-20190413091930/@comment-9605025-20190418203922

Yes, the search bar delivers different results because it is actually searching for pages with titles that are similar to the provided text rather than simply listing them. As I said, "allpages" is not a search function, it is a listing function. The search bar has a lot more behind it than just a "simple" API call.

Okay, but in my defense, it wasn't at all clear that you were trying to do the two things at once. In your initial post, you only talked about not being able to follow the redirect. It was only later that you brought up the searching issue; and it wasn't clear that the two were related.

So, if I am understanding you correctly, here is what you want. A user provides a search term. You then search the wiki for the closest matching page, follow the redirects if there are any, and then display a short summary along with an image. Is that correct? - Edit:

I did some searching and found a few promising things but they all turned out to not work.
 * 1) list=prefixsearch
 * 2) *not avaialble with Wikia's version
 * 3) action=opensearch
 * 4) *isn't working as expected; not sure if this is because of a bug or because it was intentionally altered
 * 5) list=search
 * 6) *restricted options
 * 7) *isn't working as expected; not sure if this is because of a bug or because it was intentionally altered

In short, it looks like you are out of luck regarding a search function.