wiki-as-base 0.2.0

[RFC] Semantic Conventions for OpenStreetMap™ 2023 - Python library example

wiki_as_base-py

[MVP] Use MediaWiki Wiki page content as read-only database. Python library implementation. See https://github.com/fititnt/openstreetmap-serverless-functions/tree/main/function/wiki-as-base

Installing

pip install wiki_as_base --upgrade

Usage

Environment variables

Customize for your needs. They're shared between command line and the library.

export WIKI_API='https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/api.php'
export WIKI_INFOBOXES='ValueDescription\nKeyDescription'
export WIKI_DATA_LANGS='yaml\nturtle'

Command line

wiki_as_base --help

# Select base page from the Wiki mentioned on WIKI_API
wiki_as_base --page-title 'User:EmericusPetro/sandbox/Wiki-as-base'

# The output is JSON-LD. Feel free to further filter the data
wiki_as_base --page-title 'User:EmericusPetro/sandbox/Wiki-as-base' | jq .data[0]

Library

• See examples/
• See tests/

Disclaimer / Trivia

The wiki_as_base allows no-as-complete data extraction from MediaWiki markup text directly by its API or direct input, without need to install server extensions.

Check also the wikimedia/Wikibase, a full server version (which inspired the name).

License

Public domain