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Retrieve just the intro text in Wikipedia

How can I retrieve just the intro text (those few lines at the beginning of each article), using java? I've seen a question like this here, the problem is that the code was in PHP and I need it in java so I can implement it to my android app...

I've tried to search all GitHub for some easy libraries that could help me get what I want and I got no success.

I've also seen that this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&exintro=&explaintext=&titles=Stack%20Overflow shows information about whatever I want to search. I just can't retrieve the data because, as I said, in that question, the code posted was in PHP

Solution

  • check this https://www.mediawiki.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/get_page_summary_title

    Api for accessing content is here , rest you can normally parse the data. hope this helps.