Thank you for thereply. with case changes that worked But: when I am trying to get the data in Json.which I think is better to parser: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=Un...
I see that I am getting lot of data like: == \u0906\u0923\u093f \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0926\u0947\u0936]]\n[[ms:Negeri dan wilayah di India]]\n[[nl:Lijst van staten en territoria van India]]\n[[ne:\u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924\u0915\u093e \u0930\u093e\u091c\u094d\u092f\u0939\u0930\u0941 \u0930 \u0915\u0947\u0928\u094d\u0926\u094d\u0930 \u0936\u093e\u0938\u093f\u0924 \u0930\u093e\u091c\u094d\u092f\u0939\u0930\u0941]]\n[[ja:\u30a4\u30f3\u30c9\u306e\u5730\u65b9\u884c\u653f\u533a\u753b]]\n[[no:Indias delstater og territorier]]\n[[nn:Statar og territorium i India]]\n[[or:\u0b2d\u0b3e\u0b30\u0b24\u0b30 is my query correct? all I need is to get the Leading population centers
________________________________ From: Platonides platonides@gmail.com To: Pavan Kumar pavankumarstudent@yahoo.com; MediaWiki API announcements & discussion mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 4:14 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] getting data for a topic
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Pavan Kumar pavankumarstudent@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am new to wikipedia API. can you help me with the following: I want to grep all the content of the "united states of america" to a text file with out images. I am looking a response in text format.
How can I do that? looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%C2%A0 page contents.
I got this url constructed: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=uni...
But I am not getting what I want ..:(.may be I am missing some thing basic
A simple mistake: You are writing the article in lowercase.
Try with http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=Uni...
I did based on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php..
1.how can I get the content of what ever string I give in the query? please help me with the url. 2. I am trying to have this in a text file. can I get the response in the text format? other than xml and json?
See the list of formats at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats#Output
3. In the unites_states example, I want to get the first coulm of the citys (
Leading population centers
) how can I get that .
Extracting content from the inside of the article content will require you to perform some parsing of the wikitext.