Accessing Wikipedia's API

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Hey folks,

Has anyone used Wikipedia's API with Rails? It looks like it is incomplete (API - Meta) and doesn't support REST. All I'm looking to do is pull a summary of an article (a paragraph or so of text) for a topic I supply.

Cheers, Dan

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Dan Croak wrote:

Hey folks,

Has anyone used Wikipedia's API with Rails? It looks like it is incomplete (API - Meta) and doesn't support REST. All I'm looking to do is pull a summary of an article (a paragraph or so of text) for a topic I supply.

Cheers, Dan

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Have a look at this:

http://shanesbrain.net/articles/2006/10

Worked for me.

HTH CT

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Dan Croak wrote:

Hey folks,

Has anyone used Wikipedia's API with Rails? It looks like it is incomplete (API - Meta) and doesn't support REST. All I'm looking to do is pull a summary of an article (a paragraph or so of text) for a topic I supply.

Cheers, Dan

Hi Dan,

I also need to what you said in your query. Can you please tell as to how were you able to do that?

Thanks.