Wikipedia API

Wikipedia (as MediaWiki) has a couple of APIs for querying and fetching other data: query.php, api.php.

I was trying to fetch an OpenSearch query, but can't get the response in XML:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=CD4&format=xml

Fetching information for a page by title works, anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=CD4&format=xml

July 31, 2007

Comments

Any updates on this? I have exactly the same plroblem over here...

Posted by: Sim on August 17, 2007 8:03 AM [Reply]

The API's a work in progress, so it's probably just not ready yet.

Posted by: alf on August 21, 2007 9:04 AM [Reply]

Take a look at WikiXMLDB - provides a way of querying Wikipedia in XQuery (XML query language).

http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org/

Posted by: Maria Grineva on April 16, 2008 10:10 AM [Reply]

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