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 &quot;igor stravinsky persephone&quot; I want to get a link to this page:<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pers%C3%A9phone_%28Stravinsky%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pers%C3%A9phone_%28Stravinsky%29</a><br>
<br>The following query <br>/w/api.php?action=query&amp;list=search&amp;format=xml&amp;srsearch=igor%20stravinsky%20persephone&amp;srlimit=1<br>almost gets what I want but the data returns does not include the pageid:<br>
<pre>      <span style="color:blue">&lt;p ns=&quot;0&quot; title=&quot;Perséphone (Stravinsky)&quot; snippet=&quot;(&amp;lt;span class=&amp;#039;searchmatch&amp;#039;&amp;gt;Persephone&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ) is a musical work (mélodrame) for speaker, solo singers, chorus, dancers and orchestra with music by &amp;lt;span class=&amp;#039;searchmatch&amp;#039;&amp;gt;Igor&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; &amp;lt;span class=&amp;#039;searchmatch&amp;#039;&amp;gt;Stravinsky&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;  and a  &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &quot; size=&quot;2500&quot; wordcount=&quot;313&quot; timestamp=&quot;2012-05-13T07:21:00Z&quot; /&gt;</span><br>
</pre>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? <br><br>