wikipedia-api

I'm still stuck on my problem of trying to parse articles from wikipedia. Actually I wish to parse the infobox section of articles from wikipedia i.e. my application has references to countries and on each country page I would like to be able to show the infobox which is on corresponding wikipedia article of that country. I'm using php here - I would greatly appreciate it if anyone has any code snippets or advice on what should I be doing here. Thanks again. EDIT Well I have a db table with names of countries. And I have a script that takes a country and shows its details. I would like to grab

I have different types of dates formatting like: 27 - 28 August 663 CE 22 August 1945 19 May May 4 1945 – August 22 1945 5/4/1945 2-7-1232 03-4-1020 1/3/1 (year 1) 09/08/0 (year 0) Note they are all different formats, different order, some have 2 months, some only one, I tried to use moment js with no results, I also tried to use date js yet, no luck. I tried to do some splitting: dates.push({ Time : [] }); function doSelect(text) { return $wikiDOM.find(".infobox th").filter(function() { return $(this).text() === text; }); } dateText = doSelect("Date").siblings('td').text().split(/\s+/g); for

How to parse Wikipedia XML with PHP? I tried it with simplepie, but I got nothing. Here is a link which I want to get its data. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=2&gapfilterredir=nonredirects&gapfrom=Re&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml Edit code: <?php define("EMAIL_ADDRESS", "youlichika@hotmail.com"); $ch = curl_init(); $cv = curl_version(); $user_agent = "curl ${cv['version']} (${cv['host']}) libcurl/${cv['version']} ${cv['ssl_version']} zlib/${cv['libz_version']} <" . EMAIL_ADDRESS . ">"; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent); curl

I want to get all the articles names under a category and its sub-categories. Options I'm aware of: Using the Wikipedia API. Does it have such an option?? d/l the dump. Which format would be better for my usage? There is also an option to search in Wikipedia something like incategory:"music" , but I didn't see an option to view that in XML. Please share your thoughts The following resource will help you to download all pages from the category and all its subcategories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CatScan There is also an API available here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API

I've been up and down the Wikipedia API , but I can't figure out if there's a nice way to fetch the excerpt of an article (usually the first paragraph). It would be nice to get the HTML formatting of that paragraph, too. The only way I currently see of getting something that resembles a snippet is by performing a fulltext search ( example ), but that's not really what I want (too short). Is there any other way to fetch the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article than barbarically parsing HTML/WikiText? Use this link to get the unparsed intro in xml form "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format

I want to know: is there any API or a query interface through which I can access Wikipedia data? Mediawiki , the wiki platform that wikipedia uses does have an HTTP based API. See MediaWiki API . For example, to get pages with the title stackoverflow, you call http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Stackoverflow There are some (incomplete) Java wrappers around the API - see the Client Code - Java section of the API page for more detail. For the use with Java, try http://code.google.com/p/wiki-java . It is only one class, but a great one! I had the same question and the closest I

I'm probably not supposed to use file_get_contents() What should I use? I'd like to keep it simple. Warning: file_get_contents(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Your_Highness&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=0): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden The problem you are running into here is related to the MW API's User-Agent policy - you must supply a User-Agent header, and that header must supply some means of contacting you. You can do this with file_get_contents() with a stream context : $opts = array('http' => array( 'user_agent' =>