I wish to use Wikipedia api to extract the result of this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex
When searching "something" on it, for example this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=tal&namespace=4
Then, I would like to access each of the resulting pages and extract their information.
What api call might I use?
You can use list=allpages and specify apprefix. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&list=allpages&apprefix=tal&aplimit=max
This query will give you the id and title of each article that starts with tal. If you want to get more information about each page, you can use this list as a generator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&generator=allpages&gapprefix=tal&gaplimit=max&prop=info
You can give different values to the prop parameter to get different information about the page.
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I am using the Mendeley API to retrieve documents in the profile of a user.
Specifically, I am using this API:
GET https://api.mendeley.com/search/documents?view=all&limit=25&title=ONTOLOGY
I would like to search for all the documents that match a partial term, i.e. instead of the full word "ONTOLOGY" I would like to get the same result if I do an HTTP call like
GET https://api.mendeley.com/search/documents?view=all&limit=25&title=ONTOLO
How can I achieve that?
Should I put any jolly character?
I tried
ONTOLO*
ONTOLO$
ONTOLO?
with no luck.
I haven't found any documentation related to this feature.
Thanks!!
I have been trying to call Wikipedia API to retrieve page id and wikidata item id using below call and it works fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&ppprop=wikibase_item&redirects=1&format=xml&titles=Cat
but I need to retrieve the same information from other languages of my choice for example if I mention German and French languages in my call, it should look for their translation of word Cat and retrieve their page info. There is langlink property in Wikipedia API but somehow it doesn't work with query action along with pageprop.
So ideally, I want something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&ppprop=wikibase_item&prop=langlinks&lllang=de&lllang=fr&titles=Cat
Any help would be appreciated.
Using lllang twice will just result in the second value overwriting the first one. You'll have to omit the paramter and then you get all the links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops|langlinks&ppprop=wikibase_item&titles=Cat
Starting a request like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&titles=Title&prop=links&pllimit=500
provides me a list of links (that the page contains) where every link consists of the title and the ns (namespace)
Is there a way to also get the PageID together with title & ns? (the less work it is for the sever the better of course)
You need to use generator parameter. Here is an example for Cobra Wikipedia page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=links&titles=Cobra&prop=info&gpllimit=500
I'm using the MediaWiki API to get the content of a Wikipedia page like this in JSON.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=New_York&prop=extracts
I'd like each section to be separated out instead of having the entire content of the page as one value. I know you can get each section like this but I want it to also include the content with each section.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=parse&prop=sections&page=New_York
Is this possible to do with the API?
If you know the number of the section which you want you can get the contents through action=parse with the section parameter. E.g. the "19th century" section of the New_York article would be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=New_York&format=json&prop=wikitext§ion=4
To get the section number you can use
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=parse&prop=sections&page=New_York
and then find the index corresponding to your section title (line). In this case "line":"19th century","index":"4".
I'm using the google custom search api and want to create a search using the siteSearch:
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=k&cx=cx&q=cocos2d&siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org&siteSearchFilter=i
and it works fine (returns all the result only from the given site).
Then I want to specify TWO sites to search so I tried to change the :
siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org
to
siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org www.XXXXXXXX.org
siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org|www.XXXXXXXX.org
siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org||www.XXXXXXXX.org
but none of these works.
hope someone can help here, thanks:)
Currently I don't believe you can specify more site through the query param siteSearch.
nevertheless you can configure your Custom Search Engine here: https://www.google.com/cse/manage/all
in the "Site to search" area.
This also works for excluding, as you can read here: https://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2631038&topic=2601037&ctx=topic
You cannot do this with the as_sitesearch parameter as that only accepts a single value. But you can achieve what you want with the as_q parameter, setting it to some value like: "site:google.com OR site:microsoft.com" - that will work in a similar way to this search.
The as_q parameter is documented here as:
The as_q parameter provides search terms to check for in a document.
This parameter is also commonly used to allow users to specify
additional terms to search for within a set of search results.
Examples q=president&as_q=John+Adams
Use "space" as seperator
Below is sample PHP code which works for me
$url="https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=k&cx=cx&q=cocos2d&siteSearch=".urlencode("www.cocos2d-iphone.org www.XXXXXXXX.org")."&siteSearchFilter=i"
Thanks,
Ojal Suthar