mw-category-members

Using MediaWiki's API: retrieve pages that belong to a given category

Installation

pip install mw_category_members

Usage

import category_members

results = category_members.retrieve('Category:Presidents_of_the_United_States')
for r in results:
    print(r['name'], r['link'])

Arguments

def retrieve(cat_name, mw_instance='https://en.wikipedia.org', types=['page', 'subcat', 'file'], clean_subcat_names=False):

• cat_name: Category name e.g. 'Category:Presidents_of_the_United_States'.
• mw_instance: Which MediaWiki instance to use (the URL 'origin'). Defaults to 'https://en.wikipedia.org'.
• types: Which types of pages to retrieve. Defaults to ['page', 'subcat', 'file'].
• clean_subcat_names: If True, removes the e.g. 'Category:' prefix of the titles. Defaults to False.

Returns

Array of pages where a page is a dictionary of {'name': 'some name', 'link': 'some absolute link'}.

License

MIT.