Get all page titles for pages in some category in Wikipedia (presently, names of all personalias are requested from ruwiki)

getnames.py

import requests

url = "https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
query = {'action':'query',
         'list':'categorymembers',
         'cmtitle':'Категория: Персоналии по алфавиту',
         'cmstartsortkeyprefix':'А',
         'format':'json',
         'cmlimit':500
        }

names = []

for p in range(10):
    data = requests.get(url,query).json()
    for page in data['query']['categorymembers']:
        names.append(page['title'])
        print(page['title'])
    if 'continue' in data:
         query.update(data['continue'])
    else:
         break