awiki

a basic asynchronous wrapper for the wikimedia API.

awiki currently only supports anonymous actions (ie., getting and searching for pages), and does not support editing or creating new pages.

installation

your favorite flavor of the following:

python3 -m pip install -U awiki

quick overview

the main class is awiki.WikiClient. Each section of the wikimedia API is separated within this class.

• WikiClient.core: Searching for pages and getting file data

• WikiClient.feed: Getting featured content such as things in the news and

examples

searching for articles called "Python":

import asyncio

import awiki

async def main():
    # create a new instance of the wiki client
    wiki = awiki.WikiClient()

    # Searches wiki pages for the given search terms, and returns matching pages.
    pages = await wiki.search_content("Python", limit=25)

    for p in pages:
        print(f"{p.title}: {p.description} (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{p.key})")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())