On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 2/28/2011 10:21 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> As somebody else has already said, if the site provides an API that >> they want you to use you should do so rather than hammering their web >> server with a screen-scraper. > > If there any generic method for finding out 'if the site provides an API" > and specifically, how to find Wikipedia's? > > I looked as the Wikipedia articles on API and web services and did not find > any mention of thiers (though there is one for Amazon).
Technically it's Wikipedia's underlying wiki software (MediaWiki)'s API: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
