hi Platonides, Many thanks for your fast response
about the text, what I am looking for is a json response with inside only the main description, and not all the page without css, about the image I tried to use the first as the main one, but the service retrieve the images on alphabetic order, from time to time the first image is very far from the topic you search. (Es if I look for Italy I'd like to see the fleg of the nation and not the face of some politician) regards Marco On 22 Feb 2009, at 16:05, Platonides wrote: > 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). > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
