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I'm trying to find out if there's a Wikipedia API (I think it is related to the MediaWIki?).
If so, I would like to know how I would tell Wikipedia to give me an article about the new york yankees for example.
What would the REST URL be for this example?
All the docs on this subject seem fairly complicated.
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Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects are free, collaborative repositories of knowledge, written and maintained by volunteers from around the world. The Wikimedia API gives you open access to add this free knowledge to your projects and apps.
Because Wikipedia is built using MediaWiki, which in turn supports an API, Wikipedia does as well. This provides developers code-level access to the entire Wikipedia reference. The goal of this API is to provide direct, high-level access to the data contained in the MediaWiki databases.
Your program sends requests to the API to get access to wiki features. For example, log in to a wiki, create and edit a page, search for a title, search for content text, or parse content. The Action API is available for third-party developers, Wikimedia extension developers, and wiki site administrators.
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You really really need to spend some time reading the documentation, as this took me a moment to look and click on the link to fix it. :/ but out of sympathy i'll provide you a link that maybe you can learn to use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content
That's the variabled you will be looking to get. Your best bet is to know the page you will be after and replace the Wikipedia link part into the title i.e.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees [Take the part after the wiki/]
-->
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content
[Place it in the title variable of the GET request.
The URL above can do with tweaking to get the different sections you do or do not want. So read the documentation :)
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