Is there a Wikipedia API?

Question

On my Wikipedia user page, I run a Wikipedia script that displays my statistics (number of pages edited, number of new pages, monthly activity, etc.).

I'd like to put this information on my blog.

Is there an API that would allow me to do something like this?

Warlike

Check out Extract the first paragraph from a Wikipedia article. – Duffie

Answer 1

MediaWiki's API is running on Wikipedia (docs). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself.

More information.

Welby

Answer 2

Wikipedia is built on MediaWiki, and here's the MediaWiki API.

Duna

Answer 3

If you want to extract structured data from Wikipedia, you may consider using DbPedia http://dbpedia.org/

It provides means to query data using given criteria using SPARQL and returns data from parsed Wikipedia infobox templates

Here is a quick example how it could be done in .NET http://www.kozlenko.info/blog/2010/07/20/executing-sparql-query-on-wikipedia-in-net/

There are some SPARQL libraries available for multiple platforms to make queries easier

Norvell

Answer 4

JWPL - Java-based Wikipedia Library -- An application programming interface for Wikipedia

http://code.google.com/p/jwpl/

Peterus

Answer 5

Here are 2 from infochimps.com:

http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/wikipedia-articles-abstract-search

http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/wikipedia-articles-title-autocomplete

Mireillemireles