Thanks Tommy chheng for the reply. My requirement is to get the information of things I posted in the query. example: I post the following query: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
I want to get all the states in USA. so I was looking if I can get the JSON putput and use any tool to extract the JSON output for alll the states.. I was bit histent to use new API's but I will look into that..also can you tell me if there is any other good tools that convert for me JSON to get the information i am looking ________________________________ From: Tommy Chheng <tommy.chh...@gmail.com> To: Pavan Kumar <pavankumarstud...@yahoo.com>; MediaWiki API announcements & discussion <mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 10:56 PM Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-api] getting data for a topic 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> >To: Pavan Kumar <pavankumarstud...@yahoo.com>; MediaWiki API announcements & >discussion <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> >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 >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
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