Extension "External Data"

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External Data
Allows for retrieving structured data from external URLs, databases and other sources
Further Information
Homepage: → external page
Maintainer(s): Yaron Koren, Michael Dale, David Macdonald, Alexander Mashin
First released: January 2009
Release: stable
Development: active
Area of usage: Importing data
Association:SMW = Semantic MediaWiki, SB = Extension "Semantic Bundle", MW = MediaWiki MW
Shortcut:This is the shortcut to mark the beginning of the subject line when writing a support request to the mailing list or to the extension's author directly. See also this help page. ED
Repository: → external page
Wikidata-ID: not yet provided

The External Data extension allows MediaWiki pages to retrieve, filter, and format data from one or more sources. In addition to external URLs, data can also come from a regular wiki page, SOAP service, an uploaded file, an LDAP directory, a database (relational or NoSQL) or server-side program call.


This documentation page applies to all SMW versions from 1.4.1 to the most current version.