Wikipedia article to string

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Hello,
How can I output just the content of a Wikipedia article to a sting?
For example in the wikipedia article:

“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vvvv”

I just want the following part as a string:

“vvvv (commonly pronounced ‘fear fow’ meaning “4 v’s” in German or ‘fow fear’ meaning “v4” in German) is general purpose toolkit with a special… etc. etc…”

I tried the “RegExpr” Module in combination with the “substitute (string)” but it didn’t work…
Can anyone help me?

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It only works with wikipedia because of the xml export function.

MediaWikiToString.v4p (4.3 kB)

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Thanks a million! Works great!

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Thnx Gab, you pointed out some very useful stuff here :)

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I made a version that gets a random article. Still needs some RegExpr or other filtering for a perfectly clean result.

MediaRandomWikiToString.v4p (8.0 kB)