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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