How to strip all tags from wikipedia pages or make page more readable

Question

I want to strip all tags, remove the [show][Hide] stuffs from wikipedia, or is there some website that makes pages in more readable format.

Please I am aware of the Wikipedia printable version, but I don't need any tags in that, as I have some other use. So please answer the original question only, about any website or webservice or code snippets in php/C# to remove the tags from a webpages.

Also like when I copy some list from firefox it replaces <li> with the *, is it possible to set something in firefox to return some other non readable character like some kind of

dot

Answer 1

You could use an HTML parser, BeautifulSoup (Python) or Simple HTML DOM for example. Or you could try using an XML parser.

Answer 2

You can start by taking a look at the strip_tags function.

Answer 3

I want to strip all tags, remove the [show][Hide] stuffs from wikipedia, or is there some website that makes pages in more readable format.

You should take a look at DBpedia, Wikipedia, but just the data.

http://dbpedia.org/About

Answer 4

What about htmlagilitypack

htmlagilitypackt

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Is there a Wikipedia API?

Try this function.

Dim pattern As String = "<(.|\n)*?>"
Return System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(strHtmlString, pattern, String.Empty).Trim()