On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:32 AM, bobby terreins <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to create a tool which runs on top of your API and provides the > user with selective data. I've got most of te part figured out but i'm > running into one typical problem where TV series are involved. I cannot > extract the list of episodes from each season of any series, for e.g The > mentalist > The url is : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Mentalist_episodes > The API url i tried to work with : > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=List_of_The_Mentalist_episodes&format=json&redirects&prop=text > > I'm unable to isolate any of the data. Any ideas on how can i extract just > the Episode number, Title and AirDate.
You will have to parse the wikitext yourself, or parse the HTML returned by the query you posted aboved. The API does not handle this sort of thing. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
