Re: [Mediawiki-api] Performing a text search

[Jeremy Bradshaw]

Thanks - is there any way I can perform a search and get the page URLs in a
single query?

On 26 July 2012 10:36, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Query it as a generator:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&format=xml&gsrsearch=igor%20stravinsky%20persephone&gsrlimit=1&prop=info
>
> Unfortunately, that discards all meta data provided by the search query
> module.
>
>
> Bryan
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Jeremy Bradshaw <jbradsh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I want to search the mediawiki database and get the page with the closest
> > match to my search text. For example, on entering the search string "igor
> > stravinsky persephone" I want to get a link to this page:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pers%C3%A9phone_%28Stravinsky%29
> >
> > The following query
> >
> /w/api.php?action=query&list=search&format=xml&srsearch=igor%20stravinsky%20persephone&srlimit=1
> > almost gets what I want but the data returns does not include the pageid:
> >
> >       <p ns="0" title="Perséphone (Stravinsky)" snippet="(&lt;span
> > class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;Persephone&lt;/span&gt; ) is a musical
> work
> > (mélodrame) for speaker, solo singers, chorus, dancers and orchestra with
> > music by &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;Igor&lt;/span&gt;
> > &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;Stravinsky&lt;/span&gt;  and a
> > &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt; " size="2500" wordcount="313"
> > timestamp="2012-05-13T07:21:00Z" />
> >
> > Is this the right way to go about it? Is the title returned a unique ID
> > which I can use to get more detail of the page?
> >
> >
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