Hello Guillem, You are probably looking for something like https://www.wikidata.org that is a Wikipedia sister project. It provides nice APIs for use cases like yours: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access
See for example http://tinyurl.com/gswbvyo Cheers, Thomas > Le 8 mars 2017 à 11:09, Guillem Barbosa <guillembarb...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Hello, my name is Guillem and I'm a student that I'm working in Liquid Galaxy > project, and now I have some questions and doubts that I would like to > resolve to continue with the project. > > I have been working with WIkimedia API, I found some information about it and > I tried diferent actions to get responses and compare. For example, in my > case I want to obtain the most populated cities in the world. > > First of all, my query will be: > " > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=List_of_cities_proper_by_population&prop=revisions&rvprop=content > " (in this page there are a list of most populated cities in the world) > The response is all the Wikipedia page, and the information text is inside > <rev> tag. Then, my task is to parse the text response and obtain the cities > name in the list. I would like to know if ther are some posibility to obtain > only the cities list, and it will be more easy to get it. > > Once I have the names of the cities, the next step is to obtain the > coordinates for each one. Here I have two possibilities: a new query with API > (" > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&titles=Shanghai&prop=revisions&rvprop=content > ") I put the city name in the parameter "title", and then the response is so > extended, but I get only the Infobox part to obtein the mainly information > about the city. > And the second option is to use bdpedia, I find this option searching and it > also can be a posibility, but my doubt is: when I search " > dbpedia.org/data/Tokyo " the properties and values are the same in the > wikimedia page for the city? I have discoverd that I can obtain the response > in json or xml format. > In this way, I could get some information about the city, and search for each > tag or property that is well identified. > > I haven't found the way to obtain more detailed some information about in > this case a city (I would like to have the mainly information organizated in > tags and then it will be more easy to obtain the results). So, the other > option is to do the proces that I have explained, this requires more work but > also will be valid. > > Thanks for you time > > your sincerely, > > Guillem. > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
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