On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Shriram Getc
<shriram.getc(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
In order to obtain current events from the
Wikipedia in wiki markup, an
application generally needs to take the following
steps:
1. Construct the current date string in the form
of "YYYY_MO_DA", e.g.,
"2009_April_1"
2. Perform GET by the URL for the given date
string for viewing the page
source, e.g,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2009_April_…
> 3. Pick the content of the HTML <textarea> element.
> Since not documented, i'm
wondering whether the above is the expected way
of accessing the current events in Wikipedia? Or is there a more elegant
solution for the same task?
Dunno, but your post ended up in my spam filter for some reason. FYI
in case it helps and in case others also had the same problem.
Hopefully this repost won't have the same problems.
Carcharoth
Same here. Quite a few posts have in fact. Very annoying.
--
Alex
(User:Majorly)