MaxSem on IRC gave a solution that may help you. Using the following call, you can get section titles, numbers and offsets from the beginning of the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Pittsburgh&prop=sections
Using the following call, you can get a section's text by its number: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Pittsburgh&prop=wikitext§ion=2 You can tweak your calls using the API sandbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2012/3/3 Ashish Mukherjee <ashish.mukher...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I am using the following perl modules to extract data from Wikipedia and > Wikitravel respectively - > > - WWW::Wikipedia > - MediaWiki::API > > From both these APIs and also by looking at the MediaWiki APIs, I seem to > get the entire chunk of text in the Web Service response. To extract > different sections of the Wiki entry, I have to rely on pattern matching and > regular expressions. > > Is there a better way to achieve this? Is there some sample code in any > language (preferably, perl) which anyone can share, or is there some tool > which does this out of the box? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Regards, > Ashish > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
