# 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
Python3.3
Python requests - python-requests.org
BeautifulSoup4
## Tests
Test .py file can be found in /test.
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