WikipediaQL: querying structured data from Wikipedia

WikipediaQL is an experimental query language and, executable script, and Python library for querying structured data from Wikipedia. It looks like this:

$ wikipedia_ql --page "Guardians of the Galaxy (film)" \
    '{
      page@title as "title";
      section[heading="Cast"] as "cast" >> {
          li >> text:matches("^(.+?) as (.+?):") >> {
              text-group[group=1] as "actor";
              text-group[group=2] as "character"
          }
      };
      section[heading="Critical response"] >> {
          sentence:contains("Rotten Tomatoes") as "RT ratings" >> {
              text:matches("\d+%") as "percent";
              text:matches("(\d+) (critic|review)") >> text-group[group=1] as "reviews";
              text:matches("[\d.]+/10") as "overall"
          }
      }
    }'

title: Guardians of the Galaxy (film)
RT ratings:
  overall: 7.8/10
  percent: 92%
  reviews: '334'
cast:
- actor: Chris Pratt
  character: Peter Quill / Star-Lord
- actor: Zoe Saldaña
  character: Gamora
...

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