yes I want to something like this. first get the page then parse the definition from this page. is it something like that?
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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Conrad Irwin conrad.irwin@googlemail.comwrote:
On 04/08/2010 11:30 AM, saeed ahmed wrote:
hello friends,
I'm totally new with wiki api. I want your help.
I want to get a word definition from wiki using wiki api. the system is below
input a word -> get the definition from wiki .
I am reading this http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php . but could not get
it
well. I do understand how to implement it.
The short answer is "you can't". The slightly longer answer is, "you can download the page source, and find the first line starting with a # and that will be the definition". The alternative solution is to download them all from:
http://toolserver.org/~enwikt/definitions/http://toolserver.org/%7Eenwikt/definitions/
Conrad
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