Thanks very much, Frances. I am receiving that info OK. I note that it does not include the distance from the location in the query to the article’s location. Is there a way of getting the query to return that info also?
ja On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Frances Hocutt <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, try this: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=coordinates|extracts&format=json&colimit=10&exchars=300&exlimit=10&exintro=&generator=geosearch&ggscoord=51.507222%7C-0.1275&ggsradius=1000&ggslimit=10 > > The documentation for extracts is here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TextExtracts#API . It is less > resource-intensive to only fetch extracts from the introductory > section so the limits for queries that use the exintro parameter have > higher limits than queries that require the whole page to be parsed. > > -Frances > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:37 PM, jim andrews <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks, Max. I read the URL you cited and visited the API sandbox, but I >> don’t understand how to get an article summary. Could you please give me an >> example URL? >> >> Thanks, >> Jim Andrews >> http://vispo.com >> >> On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Jim, you already can do it using geosearch as a generator[1], e.g. [2] >>> >>> >>> --- >>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Generators >>> [2] http://tr.im/29XHc >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:05 PM, jim andrews <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Do you know if there are any plans to include an article summary in the >>> list=geosearch results? That would be terrific. I’ve been using the >>> geonames.org API for retrieving Wikipedia articles, and it returns a brief >>> (350-400 character?) article summary which seems to be the first 350-400 >>> characters (or so) of the Wikipedia articles. This is very useful in search >>> results, of course. The user can use that information to decide which of >>> the several links to click. The title alone is often rather mysterious. It >>> often does not provide enough info for the user to make a decision as to >>> which link to click, if any. >>> >>> Currently, the info I get back from your service ( >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData#API ) has these fields: >>> <gs pageid="167267" ns="0" title="City Lights Bookstore" lat="37.7976" >>> lon="-122.407" dist="1331" primary="" /> >>> >>> I’m suggesting it also include a ‘summary’ field consisting of the first >>> 350-400 characters of the article. >>> >>> Is that feasible? >>> >>> What I currently do is use geonames as first choice and if that fails, I >>> use your service. It would be nice to be able to use your service as first >>> choice. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jim Andrews >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mediawiki-api mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mediawiki-api mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
