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Get Wikipedia Article
by duniyadnd
A plain wikipedia article will pop up, all links have been removed, references have been removed, but html tags remain in there for easy readability.
I don't recommend using everytime your page loads, I would definitely recommend caching to not use up Wikipedia's bandwidth unecessarily.
Don't forget to set up a user_agent to make this work.
- 1. $lang = "en";
2. $item = "U2";
3. $mainURL = "http://".$lang.".wikipedia.org/wiki/".$item;
4. $str = file_get_contents($mainURL);
5. preg_match_all('#<!-- start content -->(.*?)<!-- end content -->#es', $str, $array);
6. if ( is_array($array[1]) ) {
7. $str = $array[1][0];
8. } else {
9. echo 'Nothing found...';
10. die();
11. }
12. $str = preg_replace("/<table.*?>.+?<\/table>/is" , "" , $str);
13. $str = preg_replace("/(<a .*?\">)/is" , "" , $str);
14. $str = preg_replace("/<\/a>/is" , "" , $str);
15. $str = preg_replace("/<sup.+?>.+?<\/sup>/is" , "" , $str);
16. $str = preg_replace("/<script.*?>.+?<\/script>/is" , "" , $str);
17. $str = preg_replace("/<div.*?>.+?<\/div>/is" , "" , $str);
18. $str = preg_replace("/^.*?<body.*?>/is" , "" , $str);
19. $str = preg_replace("/<script.*?>.*?<\/script>/is", "", $str);
20. $str = preg_replace("/(\[bewerken\]|\[edit\])/is" , "" , $str);
21. echo $str;
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