[Mediawiki-api] Get a description about cities

[Chris Callison-Burch]

If you use python, you could try Andreas Eisele's wikipedia text extraction code:
	http://github.com/AndreasEisele/wpTextExtractor

It's based on mwlib, and uses a python module that I'm working on called wikipydia that acts as a simple python interface to the Wikipedia API.

Chris Callison-Burch
Johns Hopkins University


On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:22 PM, IgalSt wrote:

> 
> Hello 
> 
> I have in my DB urls of wikipedia pages for many capital cities around the
> world 
> (For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London) 
> 
> I would like to retrieve the short description of the city that all the
> cities have before the "Contents" table. 
> I need it in plain text of HTML. 
> 
> I should I do it? 
> 
> I have tried using it like that: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=render&title=London
> 
> But is there a way to retrieve only the short description?
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