# Help me in wikipedia and ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 9, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-me-in-wikipedia-and-ruby/142619 "2008-07-09T18:52:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/harsh)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-me-in-wikipedia-and-ruby/142619/1 "2008-07-09T18:52:52Z")
pls help me if any material is there so that i can directly connect my data to wikipedia search if any one wants… for examle if anyone typed the text like india or some other u and one wants to get the information about india so how should i connect the wikipedia page with my application…? ---
**Author:** ![harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/harsh)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-me-in-wikipedia-and-ruby/142619/2 "2008-07-09T20:36:06Z")
On Jul 9, 11:52 am, harsh [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > pls help me if any material is there so that i can directly connect > my > data to wikipedia search if any one wants… > for examle if anyone typed the text like india or some other u and one > wants to get the information about india so how should i connect the > wikipedia page with my application…? What have you tried so far? Jeff > **[Hey Daddio!](http://softiesonrails.com)** > > Home of Hey Daddio Software ---
**Author:** ![harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/harsh)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-me-in-wikipedia-and-ruby/142619/3 "2008-07-09T20:41:36Z")
harsh wrote: > pls help me if any material is there so that i can directly connect > my > data to wikipedia search if any one wants… > for examle if anyone typed the text like india or some other u and one > wants to get the information about india so how should i connect the > wikipedia page with my application…? think you just need a view helper; require ‘uri’ def wikipedia\_link(text) search\_param = URI.encode(text) url = “[Searching - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search?fulltext=Search&search=#%7Bsearch_param%7D)” return link\_to(text, url) end does that work? ---
**Author:** ![harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/harsh)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-me-in-wikipedia-and-ruby/142619/4 "2008-07-09T21:55:10Z")
As far as I know, wikipedia has no API that would allow to get information directly (like amazon has for example) So you can only use Matthews way to go with the URL. There is dbpedia, some approach to get wikipedia in a form for querying, but I don’t know if it’s any good. [http://dbpedia.org/About](http://dbpedia.org/About) ---
**Author:** ![harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/harsh)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-me-in-wikipedia-and-ruby/142619/5 "2008-07-09T20:42:51Z")
Matthew R. Jacobs wrote: > harsh wrote: > > > pls help me if any material is there so that i can directly connect > > my > > data to wikipedia search if any one wants… > > for examle if anyone typed the text like india or some other u and one > > wants to get the information about india so how should i connect the > > wikipedia page with my application…? > > think you just need a view helper; > > require ‘uri’ > def wikipedia\_link(text) > search\_param = URI.encode(text) > url = > “[Searching - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search?fulltext=Search&search=#%7Bsearch_param%7D)” > return link\_to(text, url) > end > > does that work? or maybe you wanted a controller action :wiki\_search or something def wiki\_search search\_param = URI.encode(params[:query]) url = “[Searching - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search?fulltext=Search&search=#%7Bsearch_param%7D)” redirect\_to url end ---
**Author:** ![harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/harsh)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-me-in-wikipedia-and-ruby/142619/6 "2008-07-09T23:50:17Z")
On 9 Jul 2008, at 20:54, Thorsten Müller wrote: > As far as I know, wikipedia has no API that would allow > to get information directly (like amazon has for example) > So you can only use Matthews way to go with the URL. Or download a whole dump of wikipedia 🙂 > **[Wikipedia:Database download](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Where_do_I_get)** > > Wikipedia offers free copies of all available content to interested users. These databases can be used for mirroring, personal use, informal backups, offline use or database queries (such as for Wikipedia:Maintenance). All text content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License (CC-BY-SA), and most is additionally licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Images and other files are available under different terms, as detailed on their description So... … Fred ---
**Author:** ![harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@harsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/harsh)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-me-in-wikipedia-and-ruby/142619/7 "2008-08-17T20:15:48Z")
sir i have tried to connect a web page with the help of ruby to retrive the source code of html. then i want to break it up in samll paras so that necessary information should be displayed to the children in changed fonts and size.