Wikipedia API using php only get information about businesses

Question

I am making a search results page on my website, i am trying to make it detect when a company is searched and get a Wikipedia script from it.

But i only want it to show the code if the search is a company similar to google and bing

Google search for Microsoft showing information on companies.

i have the api setup to get the first paragraph. But now i need to detect if it is a business, get the images, and get the founders/ceos

here's the code i have so far

<div style='width:400px;float:right;border-radius:5px;border:1px solid black;margin:10px 20px;'>
  <?php
     $search = urlencode($search);
     $url = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page='.$search.'&format=json&prop=text&section=0';
     $ch = curl_init($url);
     curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
     curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "TestScript");
     $c = curl_exec($ch);
     $json = json_decode($c);
     $content = $json->{'parse'}->{'text'}->{'*'};
  ?>
  <div style='width:100px;height:100px;float:right;'>
     <?php
        //where i want the picture to display
     ?>
  </div>
  <div>
      <?php
          $pattern = '#<p>(.*)</p>#Us';
          if(preg_match($pattern, $content, $matches)){
              print clean(strip_tags($matches[1]));
          }
      ?>
  </div>
</div>

I've looked at the wikipedia API but i can't seem to find anything that shows if its in a section about companies or not, also crawling the page for images seems to be very laggy and unneeded. Also would using JavaScript be a better way of getting it then using php?

most companies at enwp uses the `Infobox company` infobox, so you could look for that, either by checking for that template using the API, or by looking in the wikitext for `{{Infobox company...` — leo, Jan 19 '15 at 13:46
possible duplicate of [How do I get all articles about people from Wikipedia?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4017166/how-do-i-get-all-articles-about-people-from-wikipedia) — leo, Jan 20 '15 at 14:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '15 at 19:51

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&format=json&cmtitle=Category%3ACompanies&cmtype=subcat&cmlimit=max&rawcontinue= gives you a list of all categories for all companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categories&format=json&cllimit=max&rawcontinue=&titles=Microsoft is the list of all categories for "Microsoft" for example, you could parse that list for /[Cc]ompan(y|ies)/
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=images&format=json&imlimit=max&rawcontinue=&titles=Microsoft is a list of all files on that page.

You'll have to do most of your own parsing, but the API can certain be used for this for you.

Wikipedia API using php only get information about businesses

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