Thanks Roan for your fast replay,

my problem now is that I have only the curid and not the title of the page... How can I get the page title from a curid?

regards, Marco

marco tanzi schreef:

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Hi folks,

I would like to know if it is possible to retrieve from a wikipedia page only the main description and, if it is available, the image. For example I would like to get only the main description and the image of the U2 band from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=52780 . How can I do this? I looked on the Wikipedia API (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) but I haven't found nothing that feet my needs. It would be great if there is a web service that retrieve an XML/JSON object with this data

What could work is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=U2&prop=revisi...

This simply returns everything before the first == Section == header.

As for the image: there's no such thing as *the* image belonging to a page. You can get all images on a page, of course, using

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=U2&prop=images

(Note that these two queries can also be combined by using prop=revisions|images .)

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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Hi Roan,

thanks for your reply, was really helpful!!!

May I ask you another suggestion?

If I search on wikipedia about 'George Bush', I will see the following results:

George Bush may refer to:

* George Bush (biblical scholar), 19th century biblical scholar and preacher * George Washington Bush (1779–1863), first black settler in what is now the state of Washington * .........

how can I fetch the list of short descriptions using the API?

kind regards Marco

marco tanzi schreef:

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Thanks Roan for your fast replay,

my problem now is that I have only the curid and not the title of the page... How can I get the page title from a curid?

Instead of titles=U2 , use pageids=52780 in those queries I mentioned.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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Hi Roan,

first I want to say you thank one more time for yours helpful suggestions.

Now I can fetch the main description of the topic i am looking for using:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop...

I received a correct json object, but the content of the revision is full of data I do not need like {{....}} [[...]] ecc. I would like to get only the clean description, only text (like the one visible from the wiki website). I'm trying to find a regex pattern but without good results...

How can I do that? there is some parser to clean my json object?

hope someone could help me out|!

kind regards Marco