marco tanzi wrote:
Hi guys,
I am writing a ruby application to retrieve the wikipedia data: the main description and the main image (the one on the box in the left side). As parameter I have the cruid of the wiki page, so I call the wiki API to get the data, now start the problems:
You're probably better asking for http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&action=render or http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=52780&action=render
Treat the first image as the one you want. You can get plain text by removing anything between < > (and undoing entitites).