2010/2/3 IgalSt <xoxsoft(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hello
I have in my DB urls of wikipedia pages for many capital cities around the
world
(For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London)
I would like to retrieve the short description of the city that all the
cities have before the "Contents" table.
I need it in plain text of HTML.
I should I do it?
I have tried using it like that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=render&title=London
But is there a way to retrieve only the short description?
You can get the wikitext of the text before the first section with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=London§ion=
Getting just the HTML of a section is not supported, although you can
easily look for <h2> (or another one of h1-h6) and cut off there.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)