Wikipedia-API 0.2.0

Python Wrapper for Wikipedia

Wikipedia API

This package provides python API for accessing Wikipedia.

Installation

pip3 install wikipedia-api

Usage

import wikipedia

# Extract data in Wiki format
wiki_wiki = wikipedia.Wikipedia('en')

page_py = wiki_wiki.article('Python_(programming_language)')

print("Page - Exists: %s" % page_py.exists())
# Page - Exists: True

print("Page - Id: %s" % page_py.pageid)
# Page - Id: 23862

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

print("Page - Summary: %s" % page_py.summary[0:60])
# Page - Summary: Python is a widely used high-level programming language for


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_py.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
# ...

section_py = page_py.section_by_title('Features and philosophy')
print("Section - Title: %s" % section_py.title)
# Section - Title: Features and philosophy

print("Section - Text: %s" % section_py.text[0:60])
# Section - Text: Python is a multi-paradigm programming language. Object-orie

# Now lets extract texts with HTML tags
wiki_html = wikipedia.Wikipedia(
        language='cs',
        extract_format=wikipedia.ExtractFormat.HTML
)

page_ostrava = wiki_html.article('Ostrava')

print("Page - Exists: %s" % page_ostrava.exists())
# Page - Exists: True

print("Page - Id: %s" % page_ostrava.pageid)
# Page - Id: 7667

print("Page - Title: %s" % page_ostrava.title)
# Page - Title: Ostrava

print("Page - Summary: %s" % page_ostrava.summary[0:60])
# Page - Summary: <p><b>Ostrava</b> (polsky <span lang="pl" title="polština" x

print_sections(page_ostrava.sections)
# *: Znak a logo -
# **: Heraldický znak - <p>Městský znak je blasonován: <i>V modr
# **: Marketingové logo - <p>V roce 2008 bylo představeno nové log
# *: Historie - <dl><dd><i>Související informace nalezne
# **: Zemské hranice - <p>Zemské hranice zde tvoří řeky Odra a
# *: Obyvatelstvo - <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditiona

section_ostrava = page_ostrava.section_by_title('Heraldický znak')
print("Section - Title: %s" % section_ostrava.title)
# Section - Title: Heraldický znak

print("Section - Text: %s" % section_ostrava.text[0:60])
# Section - Text: <p>Městský znak je blasonován: <i>V modrém štítě na zeleném

page_nonexisting = wiki_wiki.article('Wikipedia-API-FooBar')
print("Page - Exists: %s" % page_nonexisting.exists())
# Page - Exists: False

print("Page - Id: %s" % page_nonexisting.pageid)
# Page - Id: -1

print("Page - Title: %s" % page_nonexisting.title)
# Page - Title: Wikipedia-API-FooBar

print("Page - Summary: %s" % page_nonexisting.summary[0:60])
# Page - Summary:

External Links

• GitHub

• PyPi

• Travis

• ReadTheDocs

Changelog

0.2.0

• Use properties instead of functions

• Added support for property Info

0.1.6

• Support for extracting texts with HTML markdown

• Added initial version of unit tests

0.1.4

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

• Added support for property Extracts