Hi Ed, The query you mentioned returns external urls in the web page. May be the word I used is ambiguous. In some Wikipedia pages there is a section called "External Links". It is normally after further reading section. so in this example Amoxicillin Wikipedia page, there is a table like structure having a heading "Antibacterials: cell envelope antibiotics (J01C-J01D)" under "External Link" section of the page. Basically, what I want to do is to get urls mentioned in that section for each wikipedia page. Do you get the requirement clearly now? Thank you.

regards, Kalpa ________________________________________ From: mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Ed Summers [ehs@pobox.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:27 PM To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] extracting external link portion of a wiki page

Does, this get you what you need?

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

It should return all the Wikipedia links in the article. The external links are links to web properties outside of Wikipedia.

//Ed

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Gunaratna, Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silva gunaratna.2@wright.edu wrote:

Hi, I have been using mediaWiki API to get categories a page belongs to using 'query' for 'action' and 'category' for 'prop'.

Now I want to get external link part of a page. For example, Amoxicillin wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoxicillin has a table like structure in the external links section down in the bottom of the page having links to many other related concepts to Amoxicillin. I want to retrieve links of those related concepts. Currently, I am looking for a way to get these details. I am not sure yet whether I can do it through the API or I just have to process the page to get those details. If there is a way to get these details through MediaWiki API, please respond. Thank you very much in advance.

regards, Kalpa

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Hi Masti, Thank you for the reply. As I see and searched in the API, there is no way that I can get the template extraction through the API. So what I am thinking is to get the list of templates through API as follows for Amoxicillin.

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

But I do not see the template "Template:Cell_wall_disruptive_antibiotics" as you mentioned in the last e-mail. I expected prop=templates query would give me all the properties in the wiki page. Then select the appropriate template to get external links using API as follows.

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

I also have issues with this query as well. It returns links that I do not see in the template page. For example, Beta-lactam antibiotic is not there in the template page but the query return it.

Do you have any idea about these issues? Thank you.

________________________________________ From: mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of masti [mastigm@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 7:38 AM To: mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] extracting external link portion of a wiki page

The table you are referring to is a template. In this case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cell_wall_disruptive_antibiotics

so you need to extract links from this template page. They are not directly stated in the article.

masti

On 09/13/2012 04:37 AM, Gunaratna, Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silva wrote:

Hi Ed, The query you mentioned returns external urls in the web page. May be the word I used is ambiguous. In some Wikipedia pages there is a section called "External Links". It is normally after further reading section. so in this example Amoxicillin Wikipedia page, there is a table like structure having a heading "Antibacterials: cell envelope antibiotics (J01C-J01D)" under "External Link" section of the page. Basically, what I want to do is to get urls mentioned in that section for each wikipedia page. Do you get the requirement clearly now? Thank you.

regards, Kalpa ________________________________________ From: mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Ed Summers [ehs@pobox.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:27 PM To: MediaWiki API announcements& discussion Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] extracting external link portion of a wiki page

Does, this get you what you need?

 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=Amoxicillin&format=json&pllimit=500

It should return all the Wikipedia links in the article. The external links are links to web properties outside of Wikipedia.

//Ed

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Gunaratna, Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silvagunaratna.2@wright.edu wrote:

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Hi, I have been using mediaWiki API to get categories a page belongs to using 'query' for 'action' and 'category' for 'prop'.

Now I want to get external link part of a page. For example, Amoxicillin

wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoxicillin has a table like structure in the external links section down in the bottom of the page having links to many other related concepts to Amoxicillin. I want to retrieve links of those related concepts. Currently, I am looking for a way to get these details. I am not sure yet whether I can do it through the API or I just have to process the page to get those details. If there is a way to get these details through MediaWiki API, please respond. Thank you very much in advance.

regards, Kalpa

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On 14 September 2012 04:14, Gunaratna, Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silva gunaratna.2@wright.edu wrote:

Hi Masti, Thank you for the reply. As I see and searched in the API, there is no way that I can get the template extraction through the API. So what I am thinking is to get the list of templates through API as follows for Amoxicillin.

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

But I do not see the template "Template:Cell_wall_disruptive_antibiotics" as you mentioned in the last e-mail. I expected prop=templates query would give me all the properties in the wiki page. Then select the appropriate template to get external links using API as follows.

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

I also have issues with this query as well. It returns links that I do not see in the template page. For example, Beta-lactam antibiotic is not there in the template page but the query return it.

Do you have any idea about these issues? Thank you.

Look at DBpedia. It extracts tons of info from Wikipedia in a manner which can be programmatically queried, though it does require to learn quite a few new concepts. I've had good luck asking on StackOverflow how to get particular data out of DBpedia but it also has its own forums where you can ask.

http://dbpedia.org/About

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dbpedia?sort=faq

Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)

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From: mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of masti [mastigm@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 7:38 AM To: mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] extracting external link portion of a wiki page

The table you are referring to is a template. In this case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cell_wall_disruptive_antibiotics

so you need to extract links from this template page. They are not directly stated in the article.

masti

On 09/13/2012 04:37 AM, Gunaratna, Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silva wrote:

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Hi Ed, The query you mentioned returns external urls in the web page. May be the word I used is ambiguous. In some Wikipedia pages there is a section called "External Links". It is normally after further reading section. so in this example Amoxicillin Wikipedia page, there is a table like structure having a heading "Antibacterials: cell envelope antibiotics (J01C-J01D)" under "External Link" section of the page. Basically, what I want to do is to get urls mentioned in that section for each wikipedia page. Do you get the requirement clearly now? Thank you.

regards, Kalpa ________________________________________ From: mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Ed Summers [ehs@pobox.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:27 PM To: MediaWiki API announcements& discussion Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] extracting external link portion of a wiki page

Does, this get you what you need?

 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=Amoxicillin&format=json&pllimit=500

It should return all the Wikipedia links in the article. The external links are links to web properties outside of Wikipedia.

//Ed

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Gunaratna, Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silvagunaratna.2@wright.edu wrote:

...

Hi, I have been using mediaWiki API to get categories a page belongs to using 'query' for 'action' and 'category' for 'prop'.

Now I want to get external link part of a page. For example, Amoxicillin

wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoxicillin has a table like structure in the external links section down in the bottom of the page having links to many other related concepts to Amoxicillin. I want to retrieve links of those related concepts. Currently, I am looking for a way to get these details. I am not sure yet whether I can do it through the API or I just have to process the page to get those details. If there is a way to get these details through MediaWiki API, please respond. Thank you very much in advance.

regards, Kalpa

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