Get Text Content from mediawiki page via API

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Le_Coeur picture Le_Coeur · Oct 26, 2009 · Viewed 57.2k times · Source

I'm quite new to MediaWiki, and now I have a bit of a problem. I have the title of some Wiki page, and I want to get just the text of a said page using api.php, but all that I have found in the API is a way to obtain the Wiki content of the page (with wiki markup). I used this HTTP request...

/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvlimit=1&rvprop=content&format=xml&titles=test

But I need only the textual content, without the Wiki markup. Is that possible with the MediaWiki API?

Answer

gilly3 picture gilly3 · May 27, 2011

Use action=parse to get the html:

/api.php?action=parse&page=test

One way to get the text from the html would be to load it into a browser and walk the nodes, looking only for the text nodes, using JavaScript.

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