Moving private as it is a low traffic mailing list. > Can I obtain this information in XML format or JSON?
RTFM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access Thomas > Le 8 mars 2017 à 12:24, Guillem Barbosa <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Well, the query seems good, and I will try to do more in this lenguage. > I have another question, I get the result in JSON or CSV format, and then the > URL "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8660"; goes me to another page with city > information.. Can I obtain this information in XML format or JSON? In this > way I could parse all the attributes and get the most interesting for me. > > Thanks, > > Guillem > > 2017-03-08 11:14 GMT+01:00 Thomas PT <[email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [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
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