2010/1/27 aditya srinivas usaditya86@gmail.com:
Hello, I am writing a Java program to extract the abstract of the wikipedia page given the title of the wikipedia page. I have done some research and found out that the abstract with be in rvsection=0 So for example if I want the abstract of 'Eiffel Tower" wiki page then I am querying using the api in the following way. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles... and parse the XML data which we get and take the wikitext in the tag <rev xml:space="preserve"> which represents the abstract of the wikipedia page. But this wiki text also contains the infobox data which I do not need. I would like to know if there is anyway in which I can remove the infobox data and get only the wikitext related to the page's abstract Or if there is any alternative method by which I can get the abstract of the page directly.
The software doesn't know what the abstract is, it just gives you everything up to the first == Header ==. You can try stripping out the infobox by stripping out everything between {{ and their matching }} (especially the matching part is tricky).
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)