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ahi · 08-10-2009, 11:44 AM

Are there any good tools or programming (python or PHP) libraries for working with (the) Wikipedia (database) in a reasonably high level way, for the purposes of extracting articles?

The sort of thing I'd want is to be able to grab the full HTML and (full resolution) associated images of an article with a single command or command line call. Get a list of linked article keywords in a similarly straightforward way.

Ideally it ought to be possible to program a sort of limited but "intelligent" spidering of articles.

Thanks for any tips in advance.

- Ahi

08-10-2009, 11:44 AM	#1
ahi Wizard Posts: 1,790 Karma: 507333 Join Date: May 2009 Device: none	Generating from Wikipedia Are there any good tools or programming (python or PHP) libraries for working with (the) Wikipedia (database) in a reasonably high level way, for the purposes of extracting articles? The sort of thing I'd want is to be able to grab the full HTML and (full resolution) associated images of an article with a single command or command line call. Get a list of linked article keywords in a similarly straightforward way. Ideally it ought to be possible to program a sort of limited but "intelligent" spidering of articles. Thanks for any tips in advance. - Ahi