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API for Wikipedia in Objective C?

Hi there,

Does anybody know if there is an implementation of the wikipedia api in objective c? which can be used to access and display the information a bit nicer then with the plain website. I'm thinking of something like the wikipanion app but not so sophisticated.

Thanks

Joerg

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You can use the MediaWiki API to download the markup text.

Also, why not look at http://en.m.wikipedia.org/ ?

Dave  2010-10-11 15:59:47
hm yes I also considered the mobile version
Joerg  2010-10-11 16:12:17
but what I was looking for, was an framework which already parses the markup and splits it in parts
Joerg  2010-10-11 16:13:13
At this point, I should highlight that they give you the XML version so that you can parse the xml using DOM/SAX and get access to the data in a way which is much sleeker than a different API in every language, although I guess my next question would be, why re-invent the wheel?
Dave  2010-10-12 07:46:11
because it should be a bit like the wikipanion app...
Joerg  2010-10-19 10:37:21

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