marco tanzi schreef:
Hi folks,
I would like to know if it is possible to retrieve from a wikipedia page only the main description and, if it is available, the image. For example I would like to get only the main description and the image of the U2 band from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=52780. How can I do this? I looked on the Wikipedia API (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) but I haven't found nothing that feet my needs. It would be great if there is a web service that retrieve an XML/JSON object with this data
What could work is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=U2&prop=revisi...
This simply returns everything before the first == Section == header.
As for the image: there's no such thing as *the* image belonging to a page. You can get all images on a page, of course, using
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=U2&prop=images
(Note that these two queries can also be combined by using prop=revisions|images .)
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)