How can I export data from a raw wikipedia request?

Question

I have this request http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=Greece and i am trying to get several information out of it: language, currency, long/lat etc. Is there an easy way to get this data with php?

It appears regular expressions would work well so long as you are getting data only from the top part. ie not for the HTML parts. — thatidiotguy, Oct 23 '12 at 16:00
You'll have to parse it yourself, but expect the page to change regularly and your parser to fail. — Matt S, Oct 23 '12 at 16:00
Read [How to parse Wikipedia XML with PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4839938/how-to-parse-wikipedia-xml-with-php) — Aamir, Oct 23 '12 at 16:04

René Höhle · Answer 1 · 2012-10-23T16:12:56.880

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You could parse the file with PHP but i found a projekt which do it.

there are some examples.

Edit:

For an URL open the URL with

$wikiString = file_get_contents('http://url.de');

then you have the result and you can work with it.

edited Oct 23 '12 at 16:12

answered Oct 23 '12 at 16:04

René Höhle

This seems like a solution, but can it process a url? Can I get dynamic results?(change greece to italy eg) – cosapostolo Oct 23 '12 at 16:09

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