Dear Team,

How can I get the image of a personality which is shown in info box in
wikipedia pages. Please provide me with the query link.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Tom Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.**php?format=xml&action=query&**
> titles=The_Social_Network&**prop=revisions&rvprop=content<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=The_Social_Network&prop=revisions&rvprop=content><
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/**api.php?format=xml&action=**
> query&titles=The_Social_**Network&prop=revisions&rvprop=**content<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=The_Social_Network&prop=revisions&rvprop=content>
> >
> or in json
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.**php?format=json&action=query&**
> titles=The_Social_Network&**prop=revisions&rvprop=content<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=The_Social_Network&prop=revisions&rvprop=content><
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/**api.php?format=json&action=**
> query&titles=The_Social_**Network&prop=revisions&rvprop=**content<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=The_Social_Network&prop=revisions&rvprop=content>
> >
> or you can request multiple pages
>
> Just save and open in notepad to see the content format in json.
> Definitely play with the API Sandbox, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**
> Special:ApiSandbox <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox>
>
> You can also request more than one page at time.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.**php?action=query&format=xml&**
> prop=revisions&rvprop=content&**titles=The_Social_Network|**
> Titanic_(1997_film)<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=The_Social_Network%7CTitanic_%281997_film%29><
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/**api.php?action=query&format=**
> xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=**content&titles=The_Social_**
> Network%7CTitanic_%281997_**film%29<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&titles=The_Social_Network%7CTitanic_%281997_film%29>
> >
>
> what the API will generate
> /w/api.php?action=query&prop=**revisions&format=xml&rvprop=**
> content&titles=The_Social_**Network%7CTitanic_(1997_film) <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/**api.php?action=query&prop=**
> revisions&format=xml&rvprop=**content&titles=The_Social_**
> Network%7CTitanic_%281997_**film%29<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&format=xml&rvprop=content&titles=The_Social_Network%7CTitanic_%281997_film%29>
> >
>
> You just need to add in the http://en.wikipedia.org or whatever language
> sub domain you need like:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.**php?action=query&prop=**
> revisions&format=xml&rvprop=**content&rvlimit=5&titles=The_**
> Social_Network<http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&format=xml&rvprop=content&rvlimit=5&titles=The_Social_Network><
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/**api.php?action=query&prop=**
> revisions&format=xml&rvprop=**content&rvlimit=5&titles=The_**
> Social_Network<http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&format=xml&rvprop=content&rvlimit=5&titles=The_Social_Network>
> >
> gives you the German translation.
>
> Tips on the API Sandbox is:
> 1. Format=choose it (format=xml)
> 2. Action - Set to Query (action=query)
> 3. Action - Right below, use drop down to choose prop value
> (prop=revisions).
> 4. Choose what you want, content (rvprop=content)
> 5. Loose the revisions to return (rvlimit), clear the input box. I don't
> know why they set that 10 automatically, let the user decide or else you'll
> get a snapshot of the last 10 versions of the page.
> 6. Pick the title, you can get multiple titles by separating them with the
> pipe | character.
>
> The problem you will have to address is parsing out the wiki markup if you
> just want pure text content. You'll have to find a sanitizer to strip out
> all the wiki markup.
>
> Tom
>
>
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> On 4/27/2012 6:38 AM, Krishna Kranth wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the link provided. I tried my best to understand how to
>> extract data from Wikipedia using APIs. But I failed miserably. Please can
>> someone help me out to give me a simpler link or example showing the data
>> from Wikipedia.
>>
>> Something like this : http://api.rottentomatoes.com/**
>> api/public/v1.0/movies.json?**apikey=**e8qkmhd7s4hambanqsbwy9ua&q=**
>> The+Social+Network<http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies.json?apikey=e8qkmhd7s4hambanqsbwy9ua&q=The+Social+Network><
>> http://api.rottentomatoes.**com/api/public/v1.0/movies.**json?apikey=**
>> e8qkmhd7s4hambanqsbwy9ua&q=**The+Social+Network<http://api.rottentomatoes.com/api/public/v1.0/movies.json?apikey=e8qkmhd7s4hambanqsbwy9ua&q=The+Social+Network>
>> >
>>
>>
>> Click on the above link and check how simpler it is to get data from
>> Rotten Tomatoes. Is there any link in that way?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Regards
>> M.Krishna Kranth
>> Team works means more We less Me.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Timothy Helck 
>> <[email protected]<mailto:
>> timothy.helck@gmail.**com <[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>
>>    Krishna,
>>
>>    Try this page: 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.**php<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php>
>>
>>    I find some of the other documentation a bit confusing. The above
>>    link seems to have everything in one place. It takes a while to go
>>    through it. Once you gain some familiarity with the API you will
>>    be able to formulate more specific questions, then you will find
>>    the people on this mailing list to be very helpful.
>>
>>    Good luck!
>>
>>    Tim Helck
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Krishna Kranth
>>    <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:krishnakranth.m@gmail.**com<[email protected]>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>        Dear Team,
>>
>>        I am planning to start a new website containing celebrities
>>        from different areas like in sports, movies and politics. For
>>        this I am planning to exract data from Wikipedia using API in
>>        XML or JSON format. Can someone send me Wikipedia API and the
>>        format of response I get? I am pretty much new to this type of
>>        technical stuff. I tried going through the document but could
>>        not understand much in detail. An example format will be of
>>        great use.
>>
>>        Thanks in advance.
>>
>>        Regards
>>        M.Krishna Kranth
>>        Team works means more We less Me.
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