wikipedia-api

I got a Wikipedia-Article and I want to fetch the first z lines (or the first x chars, or the first y words, doesn't matter) from the article. The problem: I can get either the source Wiki-Text (via API) or the parsed HTML (via direct HTTP-Request, eventually on the print-version) but how can I find the first lines displayed? Normaly the source (both html and wikitext) starts with the info-boxes and images and the first real text to display is somewhere down in the code. For example: Albert Einstein on Wikipedia (print Version). Look in the code, the first real-text-line "Albert Einstein

I'm having hard time to figure out a basic task: how to find a term restricted in a specific category.. i feel Wiki API documentation is kinda confusing... I'd just like to receive as output a JSON file with all the suggestions related to that term ex. i search for Matrix, category movies, so i can have The Matrix 1 The Matrix 2 etc excluding math results etc... thanks I feel your pain bro, try something like: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&format=jsonfm&srsearch=matrix+incategory:English-language_films Change the above format from jsonfm to json for real json

I've been searching for about 2 months now to find a script that gets the Wikipedia description section only. (It's for a bot i'm building, not for IRC.) That is, when I say /wiki bla bla bla it will go to the Wikipedia page for bla bla bla , get the following, and return it to the chatroom: "Bla Bla Bla" is the name of a song made by Gigi D'Agostino. He described this song as "a piece I wrote thinking of all the people who talk and talk without saying anything". The prominent but nonsensical vocal samples are taken from UK band Stretch's song "Why Did You Do It" Here is the closest I've found

I'm trying to get lead actor's name from movie's Wikipedia article. I tried different values for prop, prop=info seems most relevant. But this doesn't contain the information in info box of Wikipedia article. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Casino_Royale_(2006_film)&format=jsonfm Is it possible to extract information in infobox using Wikipedia API? svick The MediaWiki API doesn't understand infoboxes. So, you have basically two options: Parse the infobox yourself. You can either parse the wikitext directly or the generated HTML table (both are available

Hi i have to make an app with the following requirement: When the user opens the app, it displays the text from a random Wikipedia page. (You’re free to use any logic for grabbing text from a random Wiki page(preferably using REST APIs)) The game requires a minimum of 10 lines of text on the screen. However, we want to show complete paragraphs of text to make it easier to understand the content displayed. Use the least number of paragraphs required to cross the 10 sentence limit. I am able to get text from random wiki page but many times text is less than 10 sentences and to ensure minimum 10