Hi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=murky&rvprop=content&prop=revisions&redirects=1 > > > > yields json contents for the word 'murky'. > > > [snip] > > content['query']['pages']['54377']['revisions][0]['*'] yields meaning and > > other related contents. > > > > > > I am interested to retrieve the meaning of the word. how can I do it? > > > > In this scenario I find api to be unusable since pageid is dynamically > > generated which is required to access the contents. > > > If you pass the &indexpageids=1 parameter, the API will output an > array containing the page IDs used in the response. > > http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=murky&rvprop=content&prop=revisions&redirects=1&indexpageids=1
Thanks . > > > > Yes I can use xml and find contents inside <rev></rev> tag, but how will > > some one fetch synonym alone and part of speech alone? > > > The API does not provide a way to get just the IPA pronunciation, or > just the synonyms, or fetch any other semantic information. The only > thing that is offered is separation into sections using ==Headers== , > for anything else you'll have to extract the information yourself > AFAIK. > > Instead of separating contents with ==Headers== it will be freaking awesome if it is returned as array, This makes easy for end users. Else I need to write my own parser. Roan > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > -- * Thanks & Regards "Talk is cheap, show me the code" -- Linus Torvalds kracekumar www.kracekumar.com *
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