«   |   »

Wikipedia API?

Wikipedia.I want Wikipedia to have an API, but it doesn’t. Some web searching turned up Gina Trapani’s WikipedizeText, but that still wasn’t exactly what I wanted. A note in the source code, however, put me back on the trail to the Wikipedia database downloads, and while that’s not what I want, I did learn that they’ve got a table of just the article titles (over 1.2 million of them) in their downloads.

Some of this is related to my interest in making Wikipedia work better in an academic library context, but I’ve got other plans too. With luck, we’ll see a beta release this week.

tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Posted on Sunday, August 21st, 2005 at 11:39 pm in Libraries & Networked Information, Technology   |  RSS feed

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

11 Responses to “Wikipedia API?”

    
  1. Sourabh Niyogi
    January 26, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    We’ve put a rudimentary API together that might help you in your project:

    http://www.ontok.com/wikipedia
    http://www.ontok.com/wiki/index.php/Wikipedia

  2. zaki mirza
    February 13, 2007 at 11:38 am

    Hey,

    We recently thought of some ideas like you have to work with something like a wikipedia API to build apps and services. I wonder why one doesnt exist. Are you working on this still? can you share with me? drop in at my blog.

  3. Tux
    March 5, 2007 at 3:36 am

    I have a Simple Wikipedia API I created at my site, see if it works for you. http://www.killertux.com/node/44

  4. Jake Lockley
    July 19, 2007 at 8:26 pm

    I think what you are looking for is Freebase. http://www.freebase.com

  6. Ajitesh
    July 25, 2007 at 12:59 pm

    Thats actually prove to be a very useful thing to have wiki apis. Wiki must also move to have readily available APIs similar to facebook.

  7. Neil
    November 9, 2007 at 6:19 pm

    Is Wikipedia powered by MediaWiki software?

  8. Chris
    March 11, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    Neil: yes, Wikipedia is powered by (and owned by) MediaWiki. I think they started it all, the whole wiki thing; or at least popularised it.

    Have you tried their API and seeing if it works for Wikipedia?
    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API

  9. Maria Grineva
    April 16, 2008 at 4:45 am

    Take a look at WikiXMLDB

    http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org/

    It provides a way to query Wikipedia in XQuery.

    Wikipedia dump was parsed into XML and loaded into Sedna XML database. Now you have the flexibility and power of XQuery applied to rich Wikipedia content!

  10. josh
    September 5, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Chris, the wiki was invented by ward cunningham in the mid 90′s and the First implementation was called wikiwikiweb.

Trackbacks

    

User contributed tags for this post:

wikipedia api (10550) - wiki api (411) - wikipedia webservice (372) - wikipedia search api (308) - API wikipedia (192) - API for wikipedia (106) - API wiki (71) - wikipedia webservices (70) - wikimedia api (68) - wikipedia web service (67) - wikipedia xml api (53) - php wikipedia api (46) - search wikipedia api (42) - wikipedia api php (41) - does wikipedia have an api (39) - wikipedia apis (38) - wikipedia XML (38) - webservice wikipedia (33) - wikipedia download (31) - F (30) - download wikipedia (27) - wikipedia api examples (22) - wiki webservice (22) - wikipedia api webservice (18) - using the wikipedia api (17) - wikipedia (17) - wikipedia developer api (16) - wikipedia web service php (16) - itunes api (16) - wikipedia webservice api (15) - using wikipedia api (15) - api culture (15) - wikimedia webservice (15) - wikipedia api example (15) - wikipedia web service API (14) - api de wikipedia (14) - mediaWiki API search article (13) - wikipedia API search (13) - download free wikipedia (13) - wikipedia php download (13) - download wikipedia database (12) - api to wikipedia (12) - wikipedia webservice interface (12) - does wikipedia have an api? (12) - wikipedia api webservices (12) - wikipedia in XML (11) - wikipedia api xml (11) - encyclopedia api (11) - wikipedia xml search (11) - wikip dia API (10) - wikipedia webservice lookup (10) - api drink (10) - wikipedia search webservice (10) - wikipedia geo api (10) - wiki search api (9) - wikipedia database (9) - wikimedia apis (9) - google wikipedia api (9) - wikixmldb (9) - wikipedia web services (9) - webservice for wikipedia (8) - wikipedia php api (8) - wikipedia article api (8) - wikipedia search xml (8) - wikipedia api wordpress (8) - api of wikipedia (8) - wikipedia, api (8) - wickipedia API (7) - wikipedia api summary of an article (7) - downloading wikipedia (7) - wikipedia als webservice (7) - apis for wikipedia (7) - Wikipedia API summary (7) - wikipedia's api (7) - wikipedia to xml (7) - download free encyclopedia (7) - web services wikipedia (7) - wiki apis (7) - wikipedia webservice php (7) - inurl wikipedia from (6) - wikimedia API search (6) - wikipedia with php (6) - wikipedia api web 2 (6) - ontok wiki (6) - wikipedia database api (5) - wikipedija webservice (5) - wikipedia web api (5) - wikimedia webservice interface (5) - use wikipedia api (5) - wikipedia webservice search (5) - php wikipedia search (5) - wikipedia search api xml (5) - the wikipedia api (5) - api php wikipedia (5) - download wikipedia api (5) - wikipedia and php (5) - wikipedia summary api (5) - what is API wikipedia (5) - wikipedia as a webservice (5) - php wikipedia xml (5) - search wikipedia xml (4) - Ontok Wikipedia Web Services (4) - ontok api (4) - Ontok Wikipedia API (4) - ontok wikipedia (4) - download wikipedia xml (4) - itunes api download (4) - wikipedia:api (4) - wickipedia xml (4) - wickipedia (4) - wikipedia api rss (4) - wikipedia apis infomaps (4) - wikixmldb applications (4) - killertux com (4) - wikimedia ebook download (4) - wikipedia api how to (4) - API 579 free download (4) - php wikipedia (4) - API for WIKI (4) - webservice ebook free (3) - apis to search wikipedia (3) - Wikipedia API beta (3) - APIS wiki (3) - api wikipedia search (3) - free ontok api keys (3) - designing a wiki api (3) - mediawiki api php example (3) - api for wikimedia commons (3) - iphone using wikipedia api (3) - Wikipedia@apis (3) - api wikipedia, getarticle, search (3) - download wickipedia (3) - wikipedio webservice (3) - Sourabh Niyogi ontok (3) - wordpress wikipedia api (3) - wikipedia api code (3) - mediawiki search api (3) - webservice php download (3) - wikipedija api (3) - wikipedia api xcode (3) - php wikipedia webservice (3) - search API wiki (3) - api wikipedia xml (3) - wikipedia api -site:wikipedia org (2) - wikipedia rss api (2) - webservice simple api wikipedia (2) - how to use wikipedia api (2) - wikipedia articles api (2) - api wikipedia site wikipedia org (2) -