wikipedia-api

For example using this Wikipedia dump: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=lebron%20james&rvprop=content&redirects=true&format=xmlfm Is there an existing library for Python that I can use to create an array with the mapping of subjects and values? For example: {height_ft,6},{nationality, American} It looks like you really want to be able to parse MediaWiki markup. There is a python library designed for this purpose called mwlib . You can use python's built-in XML packages to extract the page content from the API's response, then pass that content into mwlib's

I'm quite new to MediaWiki, and now I have a bit of a problem. I have the title of some Wiki page, and I want to get just the text of a said page using api.php , but all that I have found in the API is a way to obtain the Wiki content of the page (with wiki markup). I used this HTTP request... /api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvlimit=1&rvprop=content&format=xml&titles=test But I need only the textual content, without the Wiki markup. Is that possible with the MediaWiki API? I don't think it is possible using the API to get just the text. What has worked for me was to request the HTML page

I want to get the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. What is the API query to do so? See this section on the MediaWiki docs These are the key parameters. prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=0 rvsection = 0 specifies to only return the lead section. See this example. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=0&titles=pizza To get the HTML, you can use similarly use action=parse http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&section=0&prop=text&page=pizza Note, that you'll have to strip out any templates or infoboxes. AnthonyS See Is there a

I'm trying to access wikipedia using javascript+ CORS As far as I know, wikipedia should support CORS: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Cross-site_requests I tried the following script: create a XMLHttpRequest+credential/XDomainRequest, add some Http-Headers ( "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials",...) and send the query. http://jsfiddle.net/lindenb/Vr7RS/ var WikipediaCORS= { setMessage:function(msg) { var span=document.getElementById("id1"); span.appendChild(document.createTextNode(msg)); }, // Create the XHR object. createCORSRequest:function(url) { var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); if (

Wikipedia articles may have Infobox templates. By the following call I can get the first section of an article which includes Infobox. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&pageid=568801&section=0&prop=wikitext What I want is a query which will return only Infobox data. Is this possible? You can do it with a url call to the Wikipedia API like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xmlfm&titles=Scary%20Monsters%20and%20Nice%20Sprites&rvsection=0 Replace the titles= section with your page title, and format=xmlfm to format=json if you

Is there any way I can access the thumbnail picture of any wikipedia page by using an API? I mean the image on the top right side in box. Is there any APIs for that? varatis http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php Look at prop=images . It returns an array of image filenames that are used in the parsed page. You then have the option of making another API call to find out the full image URL, e.g.: action=query&titles=Image:INSERT_EXAMPLE_FILE_NAME_HERE.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url or to calculate the URL via the filename's hash . Unfortunately, while the array of images returned by prop=images is in

I've tried to get some content from Wikipedia as JSON: $.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles="+title+"&format=json", function(data) { doSomethingWith(data); }); But I got nothing in response. If I paste to the browser's adress bar, something like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=jQuery&format=json I get the expected content. What's wrong? You need to trigger JSONP behavior with $.getJSON() by adding &callback=? on the querystring, like this: $.getJSON("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

I'm trying to find out if there's a wikipedia api (I Think it is related to the mediawiki?). If so, I would like to know how I would tell wikipedia to give me an article about the new york yankees for example. What would the REST url be for this example? All the docs on this subject seem fairly complicated. You really really need to spend some time reading the documentation, as this took me a moment to look and click on the link to fix it. :/ but out of sympathy i'll provide you a link that maybe you can learn to use. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New