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rbrayb
rbrayb

Reputation: 46803

Is there a Wikipedia API?

On my Wikipedia user page, I run a Wikipedia script that displays my statistics (number of pages edited, number of new pages, monthly activity, etc.).

I'd like to put this information on my blog.

Is there an API that would allow me to do something like this?

Upvotes: 127

Views: 327816

Answers (5)

bina
bina

Reputation: 51

Here are 2 from infochimps.com:

http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/wikipedia-articles-abstract-search

http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/wikipedia-articles-title-autocomplete

Upvotes: 5

Oliver Ferschke
Oliver Ferschke

Reputation: 99

JWPL - Java-based Wikipedia Library -- An application programming interface for Wikipedia

http://code.google.com/p/jwpl/

Upvotes: 9

Maksym Kozlenko
Maksym Kozlenko

Reputation: 10363

If you want to extract structured data from Wikipedia, you may consider using DbPedia http://dbpedia.org/

It provides means to query data using given criteria using SPARQL and returns data from parsed Wikipedia infobox templates

Here is a quick example how it could be done in .NET http://www.kozlenko.info/blog/2010/07/20/executing-sparql-query-on-wikipedia-in-net/

There are some SPARQL libraries available for multiple platforms to make queries easier

Upvotes: 15

Ross
Ross

Reputation: 47057

MediaWiki's API is running on Wikipedia (docs). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself.

More information.

Upvotes: 100

Hank Gay
Hank Gay

Reputation: 72029

Wikipedia is built on MediaWiki, and here's the MediaWiki API.

Upvotes: 18

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