Fetch excerpt from Wikipedia article?
- by Felix
I've been up and down the Wikipedia API, but I can't figure out if there's a nice way to fetch the excerpt of an article (usually the first paragraph). It would be nice to get the HTML formatting of that paragraph, too.
The only way I currently see of getting something that resembles a snippet is by performing a fulltext search (example), but that's not really what I want (too short).
Is there any other way to fetch the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article than barbarically parsing HTML/WikiText?