You can do it with a URL call to the Wikipedia API like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xmlfm&titles=Scary%20Monsters%20and%20Nice%20Sprites&rvsection=0 Replace the titles= section with your page title, and format=xmlfm to format=json if you want the article in JSON format.
See this section in the MediaWiki API documentation, specifically involving getting the contents of the page. use the sandbox to test the API call. These are the key parameters. prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=0 rvsection = 0 specifies to only return the lead section. See this example. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=0&titles=pizza To get the HTML, you can use similarly use action=parse http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse§ion=0&prop=text&page=pizza … Read more
You really really need to spend some time reading the documentation, as this took me a moment to look and click on the link to fix it. :/ but out of sympathy i’ll provide you a link that maybe you can learn to use. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=New_York_Yankees&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content That’s the variabled you will be looking to get. Your … Read more