Question

I am trying to make a API call to wikipedia through: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Petunia&format=xml, but the xml is full with html and css tags.

Is there a way to fetch only plain text without tags? Thanks!

*Edit 1:

$json = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Petunia&format=json'));
$txt  = strip_tags($json->text);
var_dump($json);

Null displayed.

Answer 1

Question was partially answered here

$url = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Petunia&format=json&prop=text';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "TestScript"); // required by wikipedia.org server
$c = curl_exec($ch);

$json = json_decode($c);

var_dump(strip_tags($json->{'parse'}->{'text'}->{'*'}))

I was not able to use file_get_contents but it works fine with cURL.