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Content Tagged with query + MediaWiki

HTTP-based query interface to wikipedia. retrieves all kinds of data in nicely usable form.

require'net/http'require'yaml'require'uri'@http=Net::HTTP.new("en.wikipedia.org",80)defquery(args={})options = {:format=>"yaml",:noprofile=>""}.merge argsurl ="/w/query.php?"<< options.collect{|k,v|"#{k}=#{URI.escape v}"}.join("&")response =@http.startd