A simple package designed to collect the edit histories of Wikipedia pages
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Wikipedia Histories
A simple tool to pull the complete edit history of a Wikipedia page in a variety of formats, including JSON, DataFrame, or directly as an object.
>>> import wikipedia_histories as wh
# Generate a list of revisions for a specified page
>>> golden_swallow = wh.get_history('Golden swallow')
# Show the revision IDs for every edit
>>> golden_swallow
# [130805848, 162259515, 167233740, 195388442, ...
# Show the user who made a specific edit
>>> golden_swallow[16].user
# u'Snowmanradio'
# Show the text of at the time of a specific edit
>>> golden_swallow[16].text
# u'The Golden Swallow (Tachycineta euchrysea) is a swallow. The Golden Swallow formerly'...
>>> golden_swallow[200].text
# u'The golden swallow (Tachycineta euchrysea) is a passerine in the swallow family'...
# Generate a dataframe with text and metadata from a the list of revisions
>>> wh.build_df(golden_swallow)
# Generate a JSON with text and metadata from the list of versions
>>> wh.build_json(golden_swallow)
Installation
To install Wikipedia Histories, simply run:
$ pip install wikipedia-histories
Wikipedia Histories is compatible with Python 3.6+.
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