wikipedia-histories 0.0.3

A simple package designed to collect the edit histories of Wikipedia pages

Wikipedia Histories

A simple tool to allow a user to pull the edit history of a Wikipedia page in a variety of formats, including JSON, DataFrame, or directly as an object.

  >>> import wikipedia_histories

  # Generate a list of revisions for a specified page
  >>> golden_swallow = get_history('Golden swallow')

  # Show the revision IDs for every edit
  >>> golden_swallow
  # [130805848, 162259515, 167233740, 195388442, 201696349, 221118422, 261207376, 269921878, 301716350, 304532738, 313393438, 331102653, 331445658, 479287772, 491418997, 496330470, 512226517, 515748101, 529222476, 544800300, 595340940, 609293063, 609296694, 613594135, 663245484, 709269059, 709269330, 709269730, ...

  # Show the user who made a specific edit
  >>> golden_swallow[16].user
  # u'Snowmanradio'

  # Show the text of a specific edit
  >>> golden_swallow[16].text
  # u'The Golden Swallow (Tachycineta euchrysea) is a swallow.  The Golden Swallow formerly bred on the island of Jamaica,'...
  >>> golden_swallow[200].text
  # u'The golden swallow (Tachycineta euchrysea) is a passerine in the swallow family, Hirundinidae. Two subspecies are recognised,'...

  # Generate a dataframe from a list of revision history
  >>> build_df(golden_swallow)

  # Generate a JSON representation of the revision history
  >>> build_json(golden_swallow)

Installation

To install Wikipedia Histories, simply run:

$ pip install wikipedia-histories

Wikipedia Histories is compatible with Python 3.6+.