Parsing HTML from WikiPedia

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Hi guys. I have been using the wikipedia API to retrieve information about a topic. Ive managed to get a response and retrieve the first section of the topic (in this case football)

 

Using this method - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page='.$search.'&redirects=1&format=json&prop=text&section=0');

 

However the first section that is retrieved includes the pictures and i just want to main text from the introduction.

 

The code that is sent back from wiki is this -

Array
(
    [parse] => Array
        (
            [text] => Array
                (
                    [*] => <div class="dablink">This article is about sports known as football.  For the ball used in these sports, see <a href="/wiki/Football_(ball)">Football (ball)</a>.</div> 
<div class="thumb tright"> 
<div class="thumbinner" style="width:227px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Football4.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Football4.png/225px-Football4.png" width="225" height="274" class="thumbimage" /></a> 
<div class="thumbcaption"> 
<div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Football4.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" /></a></div> 
Some of the many different games known as football. From top left to bottom right: <a href="/wiki/Association_football">Association football</a> or soccer, <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football">Australian rules football</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_rules_football">International rules football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby Union">Rugby Union</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Rugby League">Rugby League</a>, and <a href="/wiki/American_Football" class="mw-redirect" title="American Football">American Football</a>.</div> 
</div> 
</div> 
<p>The game of <b>football</b> is any of several similar <a href="/wiki/Team_sport" title="Team sport">team sports</a>, of similar origins which involve advancing a ball into a goal area in an attempt to score. Many of these involve <a href="/wiki/Kick_(football)" title="Kick (football)">kicking</a> a ball with the foot to score a <a href="/wiki/Goal_(sport)" title="Goal (sport)">goal</a>, though not all codes of football using kicking as a primary means of advancing the ball or scoring. The most popular of these sports worldwide is <a href="/wiki/Association_football">association football</a>, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified, the word <i><a href="/wiki/Football_(word)" title="Football (word)">football</a></i> applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including <a href="/wiki/American_football">American football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australian_rules_football">Australian rules football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canadian_football">Canadian football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_football">Gaelic football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league">rugby league</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union">rugby union</a> and other related games. These variations are known as "codes".</p> 

 

 

I want the code that resides in the <p> tags. How would i go about parsing this and removing the rest. ive tried to get to work simple html dom parser but with no luck.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated 

 

Thanks,

 

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