Hi, Please refer to freebase or dbpedia for getting that information in JSON form.
Here are some links that might be helpful http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9989727/freebase-api-for-sorting-by-city-relevance https://plus.google.com/u/0/109936836907132434202/posts/AXWkBuX5Umi i recommend following up in either freebase/dbpedia message boards. -- Tommy Chheng El jueves, agosto 9, 2012 a las 11:28 PM, Pavan Kumar escribió: > Thanks Tommy chheng for the reply. > > My requirement is to get the information of things I posted in the query. > example: I post the following query: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population > > I want to get all the states in USA. > so I was looking if I can get the JSON putput and use any tool to extract the > JSON output for alll the states.. > > I was bit histent to use new API's but I will look into that..also > > can you tell me if there is any other good tools that convert for me JSON to > get the information i am looking > > From: Tommy Chheng <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> > To: Pavan Kumar <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])>; MediaWiki API announcements & > discussion <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> > Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 10:56 PM > Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-api] getting data for a topic > > If your work focuses on getting structured data, i recommend using > dbpedia.org (http://dbpedia.org/) or freebase.com (http://freebase.com/). > They both structure wikipedia data and they have structured query languages. > > -- > Tommy Chheng > > El jueves, agosto 9, 2012 a las 10:53 PM, Pavan Kumar escribió: > > > > Thank you for thereply. > > with case changes that worked But: > > when I am trying to get the data in Json.which I think is better to parser: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=United_States&prop=revisions&rvprop=content > > > > > > I see that I am getting lot of data like: > > == > > \u0906\u0923\u093f \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0926\u0947\u0936]]\n[[ms:Negeri dan > > wilayah di India]]\n[[nl:Lijst van staten en territoria van > > India]]\n[[ne:\u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924\u0915\u093e > > \u0930\u093e\u091c\u094d\u092f\u0939\u0930\u0941 \u0930 > > \u0915\u0947\u0928\u094d\u0926\u094d\u0930 \u0936\u093e\u0938\u093f\u0924 > > \u0930\u093e\u091c\u094d\u092f\u0939\u0930\u0941]]\n[[ja:\u30a4\u30f3\u30c9\u306e\u5730\u65b9\u884c\u653f\u533a\u753b]]\n[[no:Indias > > delstater og territorier]]\n[[nn:Statar og territorium i > > India]]\n[[or:\u0b2d\u0b3e\u0b30\u0b24\u0b30 > > is my query correct? all I need is to get the > > Leading population centers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Platonides <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> > > To: Pavan Kumar <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])>; MediaWiki API announcements & > > discussion <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> > > Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 4:14 AM > > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] getting data for a topic > > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Pavan Kumar <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I am new to wikipedia API. > > > can you help me with the following: > > > I want to grep all the content of the "united states of america" to a > > > text file with out images. > > > I am looking a response in text format. > > > > > > How can I do that? > > > looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States page contents. > > > > > > I got this url constructed: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=united_states&prop=revisions&rvprop=content > > > > > > But I am not getting what I want ..:(.may be I am missing some thing basic > > > > A simple mistake: You are writing the article in lowercase. > > > > > > Try with > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=United_States&prop=revisions&rvprop=content > > > > > I did based on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php.. > > > > > > 1.how can I get the content of what ever string I give in the query? > > > please help me with the url. > > > 2. I am trying to have this in a text file. can I get the response in the > > > text format? other than xml and json? > > > > > > > > > > > > See the list of formats at > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats#Output > > > > > > > 3. In the unites_states example, I want to get the first coulm of the > > > citys ( > > > Leading population centers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ) > > > how can I get that . > > > > > > > > > > > > Extracting content from the inside of the article content will require you > > to perform some parsing of the wikitext. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mediawiki-api mailing list > > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > > > > > > > >
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