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
Hello,
I am a web developer and I was tasked with creating new mobile
app that would allow people to compare different swimmers and
their times in various swimming styles.
My question is:
1. Can I use your API freely or is it a paid service?
2. Can I store data that your API provides in my database?
Thank you
Since April 2010,[1] when no lgtoken is passed to the Action API
action=login it will return a "NeedToken" response including the token to
use. While this method of fetching the login token was deprecated in
January 2016,[2] it is still present for the benefit of clients that have
not yet been updated and is not (yet) being removed.
The NeedToken response was also being returned when an lgtoken was supplied
but could not be validated due to session loss. While this made sense back
in 2010 when the NeedToken response was the only way to fetch the login
token, these days it is mainly confusing[3] and a way for clients with
broken cookie handling to wind up in a loop.
With the merge of Gerrit change 586448,[4] the API will no longer return
NeedToken when lgtoken was supplied. If the token cannot be validated due
to session loss, a "Failed" response will be returned with a message
referring to session loss as the problem.
This change should be deployed to Wikimedia sites with 1.35.0-wmf.28 or
later, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap for a
schedule.
Note that the change HAS NOT been deployed to Wikimedia sites as of the
time of this email. If your client's ability to log in broke on 6 April
2020, the cause is most likely an unrelated change to Wikimedia's
infrastructure that caused some HTTP headers to be output with HTTP/2
standard casing, i.e. "set-cookie" rather than the traditional
"Set-Cookie". See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249680 for details and
further discussion of that situation.
[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/64677
[2]:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2016-January/0…
[3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249526
[4]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/586448
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Wikimedia Foundation
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