mediawiki-api

I am trying to use the wikimedia API for wiki commons at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php It seems like the commons API is very immature and the part at their document that mentions the possibility to retrieve license and author information is empty. Is there anyway I can retrieve the paragraph that contains the information about the licensing using the API? (For example, the paragraph under the title "Licensing" at this page ). Of course I can download the whole page and try to parse it, but what are APIs for? Philippe Green Late answer but you can request the "extmetadata" data with

I am developing an Android app that pulls information from a Wikia page and displays it in the app. I currently am pulling all Categories to navigate and have my app set up to display the page in a WebView but I would like to just pull the info and format myself instead of cheapening it by passing to WebView. What I am using to get the text is: http://scottlandminecraft.wikia.com/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=ZackScott&prop=revisions&rvprop=content My problem is the text comes back in a big clump, does anyone have any ideas as to how to get this more formatted so I could parse from

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. I was looking for a way to get the pronunciation of any given word by querying an API of some sort. As Wiktionary comes in handy to find pronunciations of words I was trying to use their API, but how do I get the pronunciation of a specific word? It seems their API only allows getting the entire Wiki article. Wiktionary doesn't have an API of its own. MediaWiki, the software the Wiktionary runs on does have an API but it

I'm studying Wikipedia REST API but I'm not able to find the right option to get also URLs for a search query. this is the URL of the request: http://it.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=calvino&format=xml&srprop=snippet this request outputs only the Title and the Snippet but no URLs for articles. I've checked wikipedia API documentation for the list=search query but seems there is no option to get also URLs. Best Regards, Fabio Buda You can form the URL of the article easily by yourself from the title. For the Italian Wikipedia, it's http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/

It seems like the only way to get approval for a Bot account is if it adds to or edits information already on Wikimedia. If you try to download any images, without a bot account, using some of the api libraries out there you get error messages instead of the images. Seems like they block anyone not coming in from a browser? Anyone else have any experience with this? Am I missing something here? Try explaining exactly what you want to do? And what you've tried? What error message did you get? You're not very clear... What libraries have you tried? If you're not aggressive, there are no