If your work focuses on getting structured data, i recommend using dbpedia.org or freebase.com. They both structure wikipedia data and they have structured query languages.
-- Tommy Chheng El jueves, agosto 9, 2012 a las 10:53 PM, Pavan Kumar escribió: > > Thank you for thereply. > with case changes that worked But: > when I am trying to get the data in Json.which I think is better to parser: > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=United_States&prop=revisions&rvprop=content > > > I see that I am getting lot of data like: > == > \u0906\u0923\u093f \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0926\u0947\u0936]]\n[[ms:Negeri dan > wilayah di India]]\n[[nl:Lijst van staten en territoria van > India]]\n[[ne:\u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924\u0915\u093e > \u0930\u093e\u091c\u094d\u092f\u0939\u0930\u0941 \u0930 > \u0915\u0947\u0928\u094d\u0926\u094d\u0930 \u0936\u093e\u0938\u093f\u0924 > \u0930\u093e\u091c\u094d\u092f\u0939\u0930\u0941]]\n[[ja:\u30a4\u30f3\u30c9\u306e\u5730\u65b9\u884c\u653f\u533a\u753b]]\n[[no:Indias > delstater og territorier]]\n[[nn:Statar og territorium i > India]]\n[[or:\u0b2d\u0b3e\u0b30\u0b24\u0b30 > is my query correct? all I need is to get the > Leading population centers > > > > > > > > From: Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com (mailto:platoni...@gmail.com)> > To: Pavan Kumar <pavankumarstud...@yahoo.com > (mailto:pavankumarstud...@yahoo.com)>; MediaWiki API announcements & > discussion <mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > (mailto:mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org)> > Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 4:14 AM > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] getting data for a topic > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Pavan Kumar <pavankumarstud...@yahoo.com > (mailto: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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org (mailto:Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >
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