On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@googlemail.com> wrote:

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/

Conrad

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