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Piero
Piero

Reputation: 9273

Wikipedia page parser for iPhone App project

i want parse a wikipedia page to retrieve information for my ios app, there is a parser or some tutorial that explain me how i can do it?...or to put the page in an xml format, i have look the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki page, but i haven't understood nothing, if anyone can help me please..maybe with some example...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2129

Answers (1)

Amy Worrall
Amy Worrall

Reputation: 16337

Have you read the MediaWiki API page, the page that describes the Query action, and above all else their API FAQ? These links will tell you what URLs you should be using to get the data that you require.

Do you know how to download a URL with NSURLConnection?

To start with, try using their API to download a Wikipedia page of your choice in HTML format. There's an answer in their FAQ that tells you how to request HTML format. If you do that, you'll get something you could display in a web view and style as you'd like.

Upvotes: 2

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