Unfortunately, that discards all meta data provided by the search query module.
Bryan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Jeremy Bradshaw <jbradshaw7(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I want to search the mediawiki database and get the
page with the closest
match to my search text. For example, on entering the search string "igor
stravinsky persephone" I want to get a link to this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pers%C3%A9phone_%28Stravinsky%29
The following query
/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&format=xml&srsearch=igor%20stravinsky%20persephone&srlimit=1
almost gets what I want but the data returns does not include the pageid:
<p ns="0" title="Perséphone (Stravinsky)"
snippet="(<span
class='searchmatch'>Persephone</span> ) is a
musical work
(mélodrame) for speaker, solo singers, chorus, dancers and orchestra with
music by <span
class='searchmatch'>Igor</span>
<span class='searchmatch'>Stravinsky</span>
and a
<b>...</b> " size="2500"
wordcount="313"
timestamp="2012-05-13T07:21:00Z" />
Is this the right way to go about it? Is the title returned a unique ID
which I can use to get more detail of the page?
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