28

I want to know: is there any API or a query interface through which I can access Wikipedia data?

Damjan Pavlica
  • 31,277
  • 10
  • 71
  • 76

5 Answers5

22

Mediawiki, the wiki platform that wikipedia uses does have an HTTP based API. See MediaWiki API.

For example, to get pages with the title stackoverflow, you call

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Stackoverflow

There are some (incomplete) Java wrappers around the API - see the Client Code - Java section of the API page for more detail.

Robert Christie
  • 20,177
  • 8
  • 42
  • 37
8

For the use with Java, try http://code.google.com/p/wiki-java. It is only one class, but a great one!

Olivier Faucheux
  • 2,520
  • 3
  • 29
  • 37
5

You can use Jwiki to get Wikipedia data Example :

Jwiki jwiki = new Jwiki("elon musk");
System.out.println("Title :"+jwiki.getDisplayTitle()); //get title
System.out.println("Text : "+jwiki.getExtractText());  //get summary text
System.out.println("Image : "+jwiki.getImageURL());    //get image URL
Viral
  • 297
  • 3
  • 11
4

I had the same question and the closest I came to an out-of-the-box solution is bliki, hosted at http://code.google.com/p/gwtwiki/. I also wrote an article at Integrating Stuff to help you get started with it: http://www.integratingstuff.com/2012/04/06/hook-into-wikipedia-using-java-and-the-mediawiki-api/

Integrating Stuff
  • 5,253
  • 2
  • 33
  • 39
2

MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. Originally developed by Magnus Manske and improved by Lee Daniel Crocker, it runs on many websites, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons.[5][6]

There is list of Java libraries that can help you to connect wiki by java code . https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code#Java

but after use some of them because of their limitations , we try to call REST services from mediawiki directly.

Amin Arab
  • 530
  • 4
  • 19