Hi Ed, The query you mentioned returns external urls in the web page. May be the word I used is ambiguous. In some Wikipedia pages there is a section called "External Links". It is normally after further reading section. so in this example Amoxicillin Wikipedia page, there is a table like structure having a heading "Antibacterials: cell envelope antibiotics (J01C-J01D)" under "External Link" section of the page. Basically, what I want to do is to get urls mentioned in that section for each wikipedia page. Do you get the requirement clearly now? Thank you.
regards, Kalpa ________________________________________ From: mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Ed Summers [ehs@pobox.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:27 PM To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] extracting external link portion of a wiki page
Does, this get you what you need?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=Amo...
It should return all the Wikipedia links in the article. The external links are links to web properties outside of Wikipedia.
//Ed
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Gunaratna, Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silva gunaratna.2@wright.edu wrote:
Hi, I have been using mediaWiki API to get categories a page belongs to using 'query' for 'action' and 'category' for 'prop'.
Now I want to get external link part of a page. For example, Amoxicillin wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoxicillin has a table like structure in the external links section down in the bottom of the page having links to many other related concepts to Amoxicillin. I want to retrieve links of those related concepts. Currently, I am looking for a way to get these details. I am not sure yet whether I can do it through the API or I just have to process the page to get those details. If there is a way to get these details through MediaWiki API, please respond. Thank you very much in advance.
regards, Kalpa
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