On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Pavan Kumar <pavankumarstud...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Hi all, > I am new to wikipedia API. > can you help me with the following: > I want to grep all the content of the "united states of america" to a text > file with out images. > I am looking a response in text format. > > How can I do that? > looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States page contents. > > I got this url constructed: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=united_states&prop=revisions&rvprop=content > > But I am not getting what I want ..:(.may be I am missing some thing basic > A simple mistake: You are writing the article in lowercase. Try with http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=United_States&prop=revisions&rvprop=content I did based on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php.. > > 1.how can I get the content of what ever string I give in the query? > please help me with the url. > 2. I am trying to have this in a text file. can I get the response in the > text format? other than xml and json? > See the list of formats at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats#Output 3. In the unites_states example, I want to get the first coulm of the > citys ( > Leading population centers > ) > how can I get that . > Extracting content from the inside of the article content will require you to perform some parsing of the wikitext.
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