simplewiki 1.0.5

a package to simplify the wikipedia api

simple wiki WIP

a simple warper for the wikipedia api

how to use

install

pip install simplewiki

quick start

start by setting up

import simplewiki

wiki = simplewiki.wikipedia()

then you can get some search results

wiki.search("cats",5)

this will return a list of results and page ids:

[('Bengal cat', '63064'), ('Cat', '6678'), ('Cats, Cats, Cats!', '68799268'), ('Cats (musical)', '215013'), ('Tabby cat', '6412655')]

you can take one of the page ids a summarize it

wiki.summary(6678)

this will return a tuple with the title and summary

('Cat', 'The cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the-')

but what if we just want to get the page?

wiki.html(6678)

this will return the raw html as a string:

...link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"/><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r10...

congrats you now have the wikipedia api at you fingertips

commands

• wiki.search(keyword:str,limit:int) > results:list[tuple]
• wiki.summarize(page_id:int) > summary:str
• wiki.html(page_id:int) > html:str
• wiki.get_url(page_id:int) > url:str