a package to simplify the wikipedia api
Project description
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
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