2010/1/27 aditya srinivas <usaditya86(a)gmail.com>om>:
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&title…
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)