Grabbing Infobox from Wikipedia API using Regex

Asked Jul 26 '18 at 05:24

Active Jul 26 '18 at 06:11

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I am trying to grab Infobox from wikipedia api using Regex in PHP. Iam getting some unnecessary informations also with the required info. How can i control it? I tried to get only the infobox class, but i guess its not correct. Anyone has worked on with grabbing the infobox contents? Is there any alternate solution other than Regex? Can anyone pls help me on this?

$url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=json&titles=Haw_Par_Villa&rvsection=0&rvparse";
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true);
$data = current($data['query']['pages']);
$regex = '#<\s*?table\b[^>]*>(.*)</table\b[^>]*>#s';
//$regex = '(?=\{Infobox)(\{([^{}]|(?1))*\})';
$code = preg_match($regex, $data["revisions"][0]['*'], $matches);
echo($matches[0]);

edited Jul 26 '18 at 06:11

asked Jul 26 '18 at 05:24

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Don't use regex for this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags – CertainPerformance Jul 26 '18 at 05:25
Yeah i will check that. – Jul 26 '18 at 05:28
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33862336/how-to-extract-information-from-a-wikipedia-infobox – Tgr Jul 28 '18 at 15:13

Grabbing Infobox from Wikipedia API using Regex

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