[Mediawiki-l] How can I get an article's content

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Pedro Ortiz Garcia-Miguel escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to get an article of my mediawiki making a program in python.
> I want to get the article's content in XML format, but I haven't seen any
> API's
> function which returns this content, so I am trying to get the article
> parsing
> the HTML file but this is very cumbersome.
> 
> Does someone know any easier way to get this content?
> 
> Greetings, Pedro.

You can use Special:Export
Or, using the api, rvprop=content

http://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&meta=siteinfo&titles=Portada&rvprop=user|comment|content