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Wikipedia API for Python extracting sections

Project description

Wikipedia with sections is a Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia.

This is a fork from Jonathan Goldsmith’s Wikipedia package

>>> import wikipedia

>>> ny = wikipedia.page("New York")
>>> ny.sections[:5]
# ['Etymology', 'History', 'Early history', 'Dutch rule', 'English rule']

Installation

To install Wikipedia, simply run:

$ pip install wikipedia_sections

Wikipedia is compatible with Python 2.6+ (2.7+ to run unittest discover) and Python 3.3+.

Documentation

See https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia for full dcumentation.

License

MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file for full details.

Credits

  • Wikipedia by Jonathan Goldsmith for the original repository

  • wiki-api by @richardasaurus for inspiration

  • @nmoroze and @themichaelyang for feedback and suggestions

  • The Wikimedia Foundation for giving the world free access to data

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