There are a many people online who are trying to get a way to Wikipedia API (if any)..i.e to search wikipedia by giving search keyword,

There is a traditional way to do it, using the REST web services in any java or javascript enabled languages, for .NET there are wikipedia web services to do this.. I dont know whethere there is any wikipedia API to accomplish this taks..

The problem is that only a few hand ful of people know that we have a wikipedia web service running for getting content by keywords.

As far as i know the easiest way to access wikipedia content is using Mediawiki API which is just a URL which mush have overloaded query strings about the format , content and other facts that you need to retrieve. there is no function or feature something that you can use it in your application.. only a url is there and that url will extract some content in a junk format.

Is there any way to make thins better ?

Here you go - where i give you all parameters description in a more comprehensive manner



format - The format of the output which is shown when you query in the url in your browser.(till now there is no better wiki format parser), so it will look like some junk content, and it takes only One single value: json, jsonfm, php, phpfm, wddx, wddxfm, xml, xmlfm, yaml, yamlfm, rawfm, txt, txtfm, dbg, dbgfm

action - There are various processes you can perform including sitematrix, opensearch, login, logout, query, expandtemplates, parse, feedwatchlist, help, paraminfo, rollback, delete, undelete, protect, block, unblock, move, edit, emailuser, watch.

version - this is used only When showing help which includes version for each module individually
maxlag - [actually dint work for me]
smaxage - here i gave 0,1, 2 and i found no difference
maxage - Set the max-age header to this many seconds. Errors are never cached
Default: 0
requestid - Request ID is used to distinguish requests.not that much important

here is a sample

api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Windows|Main%20Page&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content

hope this information helps.

Thankx to Roan Kattouw who is the person behind this API.. :-)