2010/2/3 IgalSt <[email protected]>: > > Hello > > I have in my DB urls of wikipedia pages for many capital cities around the > world > (For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London) > > I would like to retrieve the short description of the city that all the > cities have before the "Contents" table. > I need it in plain text of HTML. > > I should I do it? > > I have tried using it like that: > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=render&title=London > > But is there a way to retrieve only the short description? > You can get the wikitext of the text before the first section with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=London§ion= Getting just the HTML of a section is not supported, although you can easily look for <h2> (or another one of h1-h6) and cut off there. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
