Wikipedia-API 0.1.5

Python Wrapper for Wikipedia

Wikipedia API

This package provides python API for accessing Wikipedia.

Installation

pip3 install wikipedia-api

Usage

import wikipedia

wiki = wikipedia.Wikipedia('en')

page = wiki.article('Python_(programming_language)')

print("Page - Id: %s" % page.id())
# Page - Id: 23862

print("Page - Title: %s" % page.title())
# Page - Title: Python (programming language)

print("Page - Summary: %s" % page.summary())
# Page - Summary: Python is a widely used high-level programming ...


def print_sections(sections, level=0):
        for s in sections:
            print("%s: %s - %s" % ("*" * (level + 1), s.title(), s.text()[0:40]))
            print_sections(s.sections(), level + 1)


print_sections(page.sections())
# *: History - Python was conceived in the late 1980s,
# *: Features and philosophy - Python is a multi-paradigm programming l
# *: Syntax and semantics - Python is meant to be an easily readable
# **: Indentation - Python uses whitespace indentation, rath
# **: Statements and control flow - Python's statements include (among other
# **: Expressions - Some Python expressions are similar to l
# ...

libraries = page.section_by_title('Libraries')
print("Section - Title: %s" % libraries.title())
# Section - Title: Libraries

print("Section - Text: %s" % libraries.text())
# Section - Text: Python's large standard library, commonly cited as ...

External Links

• GitHub

• PyPi

• Travis

• ReadTheDocs

Changelog

0.1.4

• It’s possible to extract summary and sections of the page