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Getting content using wikipedia API
Using PHP, how do I get the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article with the MediaWiki API? \[/quote\]This is mainly an XML-related question.I'm trying to do this using the MediaWiki API.I've managed to get a response in XML format (can change to JSON if easier), and I see all the content I need in the response. Example:\[code\]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=War%20and%20Peace&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xmlfm\[/code\]I used xmlfm here for formatting reasons. In PHP I'm doing:\[code\]$request = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=War%20and%20Peace&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml";$response = @file_get_contents($request);$wxml = simplexml_load_string($response);var_dump($wxml);\[/code\]Which prints out everything in the XML. My question is, how do I get the first paragraph out of this?I can parse it from the full article, so basically what I'm asking is, how do I get the article text from this XML? Of course, if there's a way to go for the first paragraph directly, that would be best.
Getting content using wikipedia API
Using PHP, how do I get the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article with the MediaWiki API? \[/quote\]This is mainly an XML-related question.I'm trying to do this using the MediaWiki API.I've managed to get a response in XML format (can change to JSON if easier), and I see all the content I need in the response. Example:\[code\]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=War%20and%20Peace&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xmlfm\[/code\]I used xmlfm here for formatting reasons. In PHP I'm doing:\[code\]$request = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=War%20and%20Peace&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml";$response = @file_get_contents($request);$wxml = simplexml_load_string($response);var_dump($wxml);\[/code\]Which prints out everything in the XML. My question is, how do I get the first paragraph out of this?I can parse it from the full article, so basically what I'm asking is, how do I get the article text from this XML? Of course, if there's a way to go for the first paragraph directly, that would be best.