wikiapi 1

A basic python library enabling access to Wikipedia.org's search results and article content.

# wiki-api

A basic python library enabling access to Wikipedia.org’s search results and articles.

## How To Use

### Create an instance of wiki-api

wiki = WikiApi() wiki = WikiApi({ ‘locale’ : ‘es’}) # to specify your locale, ‘en’ is default

### Search for something on wikipedia

results = wiki.find(‘Barack Obama’) => [‘Barack_Obama’, ‘Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign,_2008’, …]

### Get information about a wiki article

article = wiki.get_article(results[0])

article.heading => ‘Barack Obama’ article.image => ‘http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg/220px-Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg’ article.summary => ‘Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of th…’ article.references => [‘Obama: No green light for Israel to attack Iran. Cnn.com. 2009-07-07. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/07/obama.israel.iran/. Retrieved January 4, 2013.’, …, .., …] article.content => ‘Full article dump…’

## Requirements

1. Python3.3

2. Python requests - python-requests.org

3. BeautifulSoup4

## Tests

Test .py file can be found in /test.