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&p… [1] or the bio info (like you want) with property id P21: http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q9488&p… [2] Hope that helps! Best Florian -----Original-Nachricht----- 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(a)gmail.com> An: mediawiki-api(a)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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=ex… [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&a… [2] http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q9488&a… [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&…