Thanks Roan for your fast replay, my problem now is that I have only the curid and not the title of the page... How can I get the page title from a curid?
regards, Marco > marco tanzi schreef: >> Hi folks, >> >> I would like to know if it is possible to retrieve from a wikipedia >> page >> only the main description and, if it is available, the image. >> For example I would like to get only the main description and the >> image >> of the U2 band from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=52780 >> . >> How can I do this? I looked on the Wikipedia API >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php) but I haven't found nothing that >> feet my needs. >> It would be great if there is a web service that retrieve an XML/JSON >> object with this data > What could work is: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=U2&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=0 > > This simply returns everything before the first == Section == header. > > As for the image: there's no such thing as *the* image belonging to a > page. You can get all images on a page, of course, using > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=U2&prop=images > > (Note that these two queries can also be combined by using > prop=revisions|images .) > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
