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Greetings, as the title suggest, I wish to ask how to retrieve a JSON tree of Section names of a given page.

You see, I wish to have function pageCon(pageName,sectionName) to return the section content by passing a sectionName. But i was unable to find anyway from api.php to retrieve it by directly passing a non-number sectionName (or I wasn't looking good enough, anyway).

However the only loop hole i could think of from the API was looping the &rvsection= from 1 till undefined then parsing the first line containing the inside of == == until it could match sectionName. It was good but I think this would be too congestive as any section could contain 100,000+ characters, thereafter just "dumping it" when it finds that it wasn't it, then moving on to the next section with a possible 100,000+ characters - again? As with any developer, I want AMAP to consume as little bandwidth as possible as I expect this function to be used several times in a page when the need arises.

So, basically my question is how to retrieve a (soft of) JSON tree of Section names (via API) so my app will use that to loop and compare the section names, then ultimately once found, use a 'reference number' &rvsection= to retrieve the contents - just once. Or any other non-congestive solution would be good. ^^

Thank you in advance - ^^ Fe²⁺ | talk 05:38, December 18, 2011 (UTC)

Although you might get an answer from the Wikia community, it might be better to use Special:Contact/general and ask there or maybe on the MediaWiki support desk. -- Fandyllic (talk · contr) 19 Dec 2011 2:01 PM Pacific

As far as I know, what you're trying to do is not possible on Wikia. I don't think MediaWiki stores section names in the SQL database, so I doubt you'd be able to fetch only one particular section based on its name. You could fetch the full page text and parse it, which will, as far as I know, consume the least amount of bandwidth possible to accomplish the task. You may want to restructure your application so that it doesn't need the name of the section.  Monchoman45  Talk  Contribs  Skystone  21:12,12/19/2011