维基百科Api Extensions with Php

Question

Iam using this Wikipedia-Php Request Methode. Now, i will get back only people, and not companys or a kind of that. My actualy url is like this:

$url = 'http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles='.$q.'&prop=revisions&rvprop=content';

i had searched in the wikipedia api-description, but i don't have find any help that will answer my question. Sorry for my bad English.

Answer 1

There is no certain way to chose only articles about people. You either try to traverse your way through the sub categories from Kategorie:Person, but that will give you a lot of false positives, or you can look for pages containing any of the templates that are common on pages about persons (this will vary a lot, depending on what WP edition you are talking about).

I would, however, recommend you to have a look at WikiData or DBPedia, where you can get structured data from Wikipedia. Some hints are here: How do I get all articles about people from Wikipedia?