# Accessing Wikipedia's API

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-wikipedias-api/78106>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 3, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-wikipedias-api/78106 "2006-12-03T00:09:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![thechak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@thechak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thechak)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-wikipedias-api/78106/1 "2006-12-03T00:09:08Z")

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Hey folks,

Has anyone used Wikipedia’s API with Rails? It looks like it is  
incomplete ([http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API](http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API)) and doesn’t support  
REST. All I’m looking to do is pull a summary of an article (a  
paragraph or so of text) for a topic I supply.

Cheers,  
Dan

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**Author:** ![thechak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@thechak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thechak)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-wikipedias-api/78106/2 "2006-12-03T00:41:27Z")

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Dan C. wrote:

> >

Have a look at this:

[http://shanesbrain.net/articles/2006/10](http://shanesbrain.net/articles/2006/10)

Worked for me.

HTH  
CT

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**Author:** ![thechak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@thechak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thechak)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/accessing-wikipedias-api/78106/3 "2008-07-19T10:04:40Z")

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Dan C. wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
> Has anyone used Wikipedia’s API with Rails? It looks like it is  
> incomplete ([API - Meta](http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API)) and doesn’t support  
> REST. All I’m looking to do is pull a summary of an article (a  
> paragraph or so of text) for a topic I supply.
> 
> Cheers,  
> Dan

Hi Dan,

I also need to what you said in your query. Can you please tell as to  
how were you able to do that?

Thanks.