How to scrape the first paragraph from a wikipedia page?

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Published on 2010-05-10T01:33:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 1:58 UTC
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Let's say I want to grab the first paragraph in this wikipedia page. How do I get the principal text between the title and contents box using XPath or DOM & PHP or something similar?

Is there any php library for that? I don't want to use the api because it's a bit complex.

Note: i just need that to add a widget under my pages that displays related info from Wikipedia.

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