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Asked: 2026-06-04T13:55:06+00:00

I’m trying to write myself a simple Python application to get a contents of

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I’m trying to write myself a simple Python application to get a contents of a topic on Wikipedia. For instance as an example I’m trying to get the contents of the page on the fruit apple . This is my query:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml&titles=apple

This is what the output (formated) looks like:

http://pastebin.com/LNdDjXFj

But this doesn’t really look like XML. It looks more like (I think) php. Should I just try to parse this with Python or is there a better way?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s not PHP, it’s media wiki formatting.

    Look at the formatting mw page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext

    Personally, the json formatted version looks better to me (once it’s parsed).

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