Mediawiki-api September 2012

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8 participants
3 discussions

Need to extract abstract of a wikipedia page

by aditya srinivas

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

5 months

Parse action - number of characters limit

by Łukasz Czyż

Hello I want to parse some variable-length wiki texts using 'parse' action. My problem is that API returns error if wiki text length exceeds some value, say 1000 characters. In such a case API returns well-formatted HTML page informing about unexpected error and it encourages to try again later. It doesn't look like expected behavior, rather like some fast-coded check. API documentation doesn't say anything about upper length limit. Is there a way to deal with that? I wouldn't like solution like 'splitting text into parts and parsing them separately' because it can be really problematic in some cases e.g. with very long lists ('#' markers). Łukasz

11 years, 7 months

extracting external link portion of a wiki page

by Gunaratna, Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silva

Hi, I have been using mediaWiki API to get categories a page belongs to using 'query' for 'action' and 'category' for 'prop'. Now I want to get external link part of a page. For example, Amoxicillin wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoxicillin has a table like structure in the external links section down in the bottom of the page having links to many other related concepts to Amoxicillin. I want to retrieve links of those related concepts. Currently, I am looking for a way to get these details. I am not sure yet whether I can do it through the API or I just have to process the page to get those details. If there is a way to get these details through MediaWiki API, please respond. Thank you very much in advance. regards, Kalpa

11 years, 7 months

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Mediawiki-api September 2012