How to extract data from a Wikipedia article?

Question

I have a question regarding parsing data from Wikipedia for my Android app. I have a script that can download the XML by reading the source from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/

Answer 1

Unfortunatelly, it seems the mediawiki.org documentation for parse doesn't tell you how to do this. But the documentation in the API itself does: You can use section parameter. And you can use prop=sections to get the list of sections.

So, you could first use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=parse&page=Android_%28operating_system%29&prop=sections

to get the list of sections and then

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=parse&page=Android_%28operating_system%29&prop=text§ion=26

to get the HTML for a certain section.