Question

Hello I am trying to pull information from a page on Wikia for The Beatles and I am not sure how I would even start to go about this, I am making an app where I have a listview of The Beatles’ albums and when someone clicks on the album name I want to pull the info from the Wikia to my app so I don’t have to update it with new info when and if more is added at a later time. But I cannot figure out how I would get the info from these pages. In my app I have the layout so it has the little sub-titles like the wikia such as Tracks, Side 1, Side 2 and so on. the wikia is located at http://beatles.wikia.com/wiki/Please_Please_Me_(album), and the subtitles give me the address of http://beatles.wikia.com/wiki/Please_Please_Me_(album)#Side1, if someone could please shed some light on how I could do this that would be a great help, I thank you in advance.

I was also thinking of just directing the app to show the mobile version of the wikia page in the app but I don’t want my app to suffer from people saying “oh why is it like this when you can just go to this page in your browser? I want to have as much originality as I can, but if someone thinks this would be the best way to go please let me know your thoughts. Thank you all again.

-Kik

Answer 1

Wikia is based on the new Nirvana Application Framework.

1. Request an API key
2. Read the documentation from here
3. Send appropriate requests to get the required information.

You can also use any of the following client libraries.