You can do it with a URL call to the Wikipedia API like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xmlfm&titles=Scary%20Monsters%20and%20Nice%20Sprites&rvsection=0 Replace the titles= section with your page title, and format=xmlfm to format=json if you want the article in JSON format.
Here are a few different possible approaches; use whichever works for you. All my code examples below use requests for HTTP requests to the API; you can install requests with pip install requests if you have Pip. They also all use the Mediawiki API, and two use the query endpoint; follow those links if you … Read more
You need to trigger JSONP behavior with $.getJSON() by adding &callback=? on the querystring, like this: $.getJSON(“http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=”+title+”&format=json&callback=?”, function(data) { doSomethingWith(data); }); You can test it here. Without using JSONP you’re hitting the same-origin policy which is blocking the XmlHttpRequest from getting any data back.
You really really need to spend some time reading the documentation, as this took me a moment to look and click on the link to fix it. :/ but out of sympathy i’ll provide you a link that maybe you can learn to use. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content That’s the variabled you will be looking to get. Your … Read more
Use action=parse to get the html: /api.php?action=parse&page=test One way to get the text from the html would be to load it into a browser and walk the nodes, looking only for the text nodes, using JavaScript.
There’s a way to get the entire “introduction section” without any HTML parsing! Similar to AnthonyS’s answer with an additional explaintext parameter, you can get the introduction section text in plain text. Query Getting Stack Overflow’s introduction in plain text: Using the page title: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exintro&explaintext&redirects=1&titles=Stack%20Overflow Or use pageids: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exintro&explaintext&redirects=1&pageids=21721040 JSON Response (warnings stripped) { “query”: … Read more
The wrong way: trying to parse HTML Use (cURL/jQuery/file_get_contents/requests/wget/more jQuery) to fetch the HTML article code of the article, then use a DOM parser to extract table.infobox tr[3] td / use a regex. This is actually a really bad idea most of the time. Wikipedia’s HTML code is not particularly parsing-friendly (especially infoboxes which are … Read more