Is there a CPAN module to query Wikipedia?
Ed Summers has written WWW::Wikipedia. If you’re just after retrieving a topic page, the following Perl sample code works. In this case, it retrieves and lists the Main Page, but modifications to the $url variable for other pages should be obvious enough. Once you’ve got the page source, Perl regular expressions are your friend in finding wiki links.
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