Timwi wrote:
Karlheinz Toni wrote:
what possibilities do I have to get the plain text of a page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=raw if you want the "correct" but uncommon and usually unsupported content-type of text/x-wiki; or
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=raw&ctyp...
if you want the "hacky" but more useful text/css which makes it display as plain text in browsers.
Speaking of which (don't want to start a new thread for this), is there any way to retrieve only the status of a page? Meaning, "0" if it doesn't exist, "1" if it does or an URL if it's a redirect -- I guess that would be the logical way to do it. I think it would be nice to have for automated quick searches.
--Gutza