On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:00:07 -0500, Stan Wiechers <Stan(a)rga.com> wrote:
I have a quick question: What is the best way to
integrate wikipedia
into other applications without using the html interface? I would like
to integrate the search functionality and the content docs into my app.
Is there an xml interface to the wikipedia? I would like to bypass
screen scraping. Ideal would be a REST style interface.
Well, there's "&action=raw" to get the raw wikitext of a page. Or look
at
http://pywikipediabot.sf.net for a Python bot framework for
interacting with the site. Or download the database from
http://download.wikimedia.org and do really crazy stuff to it without
loading the wikimedia servers any.
But no, no XML interface. There's been discussion of code to make bot
access easier, but I can't find any of it, and I don't think it
resulted in much in the way of new code, I'm afraid.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]