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
Hey,
This API call works when I do it in Python using requests:
requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php",
params={"action":"parse","page":"Aphrodisiac","prop":"wikitext","format":"json"})
but when I do it with wget or curl like this:
wget
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Aphrodisiac&prop=wikit…
it doesn’t return pure JSON, it returns some kind of HTML and I don’t think
I even see the desired data inside.
But that URL works in the browser.
Why would it have this behavior? How do curl/wget differ from a browser
calling this string?
Thank you,
Julius