MediaWiki::DumpFile has some facilities for this, although they were
very basic the last time i checked.

Its developer is active and responsive to bug reports, enhancements and patches.


2012/3/3 Ashish Mukherjee <ashish.mukherjee <at> gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I am using the following perl modules to extract data from Wikipedia and
> Wikitravel respectively -
>
> - WWW::Wikipedia
> - MediaWiki::API
>
> From both these APIs and also by looking at the MediaWiki APIs, I seem to
> get the entire chunk of text in the Web Service response. To extract
> different sections of the Wiki entry, I have to rely on pattern matching and
> regular expressions.
>
> Is there a better way to achieve this? Is there some sample code in any
> language (preferably, perl) which anyone can share, or is there some tool
> which does this out of the box?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Ashish
>
>
>
>

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On 30/12/11 21:01, Timothy Helck wrote:
> Roan,
>
> I've looked at search, but it only seems to return names of pages, not
> images. Is there a way to make it return images?
>
> Tim

Files are at namespace 6, which wasn't included in the provided query:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=6&srsearch=%22chartres+cathedral%22

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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Timothy Helck <timothy.helck <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> Thanks for your previous suggestions.Unfortunately I've been busy with other
> things and I am just getting back to this.
>
> I think I have found a reasonable strategy for searching images. I can use
> this query (siilar to what was suggested by Platonides):
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=6&srsearch=%22chartres+cathedral%22&srlimit=20&sroffset=20&prop=imageinfo
>
> Then I can parse the result set and create another query which gets me the
> urls:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Chartres%20cathedral%202881.jpg|File:Chartres%20cathedral%202880.jpg|File:Chartres%20cathedral%202879.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url
>
> However, I am still encountering a problem -- commons.wikimedia.org doesn't
> like requests that don't come from a browser. When I put these queries into
> php I get a 403 error. Is there a url where I can search wikimedia
> programatically?
>

Please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy

> regards,
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Platonides <platonides <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 30/12/11 21:01, Timothy Helck wrote:
>> > Roan,
>> >
>> > I've looked at search, but it only seems to return names of pages, not
>> > images. Is there a way to make it return images?
>> >
>> > Tim
>>
>> Files are at namespace 6, which wasn't included in the provided query:
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=6&srsearch=%22chartres+cathedral%22
>>
>>
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On 08/03/12 03:09, Timothy Helck wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> Thanks for your previous suggestions.Unfortunately I've been busy with
> other things and I am just getting back to this.
>
> I think I have found a reasonable strategy for searching images. I can
> use this query (siilar to what was suggested by Platonides):
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=6&srsearch=%22chartres+cathedral%22&srlimit=20&sroffset=20&prop=imageinfo
>
> Then I can parse the result set and create another query which gets me
> the urls:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Chartres%20cathedral%202881.jpg|File:Chartres%20cathedral%202880.jpg|File:Chartres%20cathedral%202879.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url

No need to perform two requests. The MediaWiki API generators can
combine them for you:
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrnamespace=6&gsrsearch=%22chartres+cathedral%22&gsrlimit=20&gsroffset=20&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url

> However, I am still encountering a problem -- commons.wikimedia.org

> <http://commons.wikimedia.org> doesn't like requests that don't come

> from a browser. When I put these queries into php I get a 403 error. Is
> there a url where I can search wikimedia programatically?
>
> regards,
>
> Tim

You need to use an User-Agent which identifies your tool.

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