Mediawiki-api April 2012

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Need to extract abstract of a wikipedia page
by aditya srinivas 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

Hello, I am writing a Java program to extract the abstract of the wikipedia page given the title of the wikipedia page. I have done some research and found out that the abstract with be in rvsection=0 So for example if I want the abstract of 'Eiffel Tower" wiki page then I am querying using the api in the following way. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Eiffel… and parse the XML data which we get and take the wikitext in the tag <rev xml:space="preserve"> which represents the abstract of the wikipedia page. But this wiki text also contains the infobox data which I do not need. I would like to know if there is anyway in which I can remove the infobox data and get only the wikitext related to the page's abstract Or if there is any alternative method by which I can get the abstract of the page directly. Looking forward to your help. Thanks in Advance Aditya Uppu

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Request for Wikipedia API Format.
by Krishna Kranth 09 May '12

09 May '12

Dear Team, I am planning to start a new website containing celebrities from different areas like in sports, movies and politics. For this I am planning to exract data from Wikipedia using API in XML or JSON format. Can someone send me Wikipedia API and the format of response I get? I am pretty much new to this type of technical stuff. I tried going through the document but could not understand much in detail. An example format will be of great use. Thanks in advance. Regards M.Krishna Kranth Team works means more We less Me.

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Listing all words of given language
by Łukasz Czyż 02 May '12

02 May '12

Hello All! Is that possible to get list containing all Wiktionary words of given language through API? I have been looking on api documentation for this but found no solution. thanks Lukasz

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Are pages in prop queries continuous?
by Petr Onderka 01 May '12

01 May '12

Hi, if I'm making a query using one of the prop modules, can I rely on the fact that all results for certain page will be together in the API pages? In other words, if I find some results for some page on API page n and no results on API page n+1, can I be sure there will be no results on pages > n? Why do I want to know this: I am writing a library to access the API and every collection in my library is lazy. For example, a user requests to know categories of pages in Category:Query languages. When he starts iterating over the result, I execute the query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=categorymembers&gc… When he then requests to know the categories of the third page in the result (Access query language), I will return to him the categories from the first query. If he requests more, I execute the query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=categorymembers&gc… This query doesn't give me any new categories for that page. My question is: can I be sure that I won't get any further results for this page, if I continue to increment clcontinue? I think the answer is yes in this specific case, because the first part of clcontinue is pageid, but I am interested in the general answer: does the same apply for all prop modules? Thanks, Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]]

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Contents of tables with prop=extracts
by Andrew Chapman 20 Apr '12

20 Apr '12

If I use http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Lightwe… or http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Lightwe… it gets a plain text extract of a page's main content nicely - but ignores anything inside tables. Is there a way round that? Thanks; Andrew

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