marco tanzi wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I am writing a ruby application to retrieve the wikipedia data: the main
> description and the main image (the one on the box in the left side). 
> As parameter I have the cruid of the wiki page, so I call the wiki API
> to get the data, now start the problems:

You're probably better asking for
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&action=render or
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=52780&action=render

Treat the first image as the one you want.
You can get plain text by removing anything between < > (and undoing
entitites).




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