I'm not sure, that this would be easily possible. I think a better way is using wikidata for that (that's the power of structered data :D). To get the birthday of a person (e.g.) you can use this query:

http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q9488&pr... [1]

or the bio info (like you want) with property id P21:

http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q9488&pr... [2]

Hope that helps!

Best Florian

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Betreff: [Mediawiki-api] How to retrieve Bio information of a person in wikipedia using wikipedia web API?

Datum: Thu, 07 May 2015 08:02:29 +0200

Von: Sivashanmugam karthi sivashanmugam4444@gmail.com

An: mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org

I am working on retrieving some particular bio details of a person from wikipedia page of that person through wikipedia web API.

I need to retrieve the bio information box of a person.

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I found how to retrieve the content box , introduction paragraph and all. The below URL is used to retrieve the first introduction para of the wiki webpage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=ext... [3]

1)But I am struck with getting the above bio information box through wiki web api.So that i couldextract the specific details i want.

2) Is it possible to get a single information like only the full name of the person or only DOB of the person through a single query (instead of getting the bio whole information and extracting the details from it).

Links: ------ [1] http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q9488&pr... [2] http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q9488&pr... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extr...