Wikipedia tools (for Humans)
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Project description
Python and command-line MediaWiki access for Humans
- get page extracts, image, Infobox data, Wikidata, and more
- get a random page, category, or site
- get page statistics
- get category members
- get site info and stats
- get data in any language
This package is intended to make it as easy as possible to get data from MediaWiki instances, expose more Wikidata, and extend Wikimedia APIs just for kicks. We say “(for Humans)” because that is a goal. Questions, feedback, and especially contributions are welcome!
Install
$ pip install wptools ✨🦄✨
Example
>>> import wptools
Get a page object:
>>> page = wptools.page('Gandhi')
Get API:Query data:
>>> page.get_query() en.wikipedia.org (query) Gandhi en.wikipedia.org (imageinfo) File:Portrait Gandhi.jpg Mahatma Gandhi (en) data { aliases: <list(10)> M K Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Bapu, Gandhi, M... assessments: <dict(10)> Pakistan, Alternative Views, South Afric... description: <str(67)> pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism ... extext: <str(3077)> Mahātmā **Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi** ( ; H... extract: <str(3372)> <p>Mahātmā <b>Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi</b... image: <list(2)> {u'size': 2951123, 'kind': 'query-pageimage', u... label: Mahatma Gandhi length: 262,790 links: <list(500)> 10 Janpath, 14th Dalai Lama, 1915 Singapore M... modified: <dict(1)> page pageid: 19379 random: Salt redirected: <list(1)> {u'to': u'Mahatma Gandhi', u'from': u'Gandhi'} redirects: <list(53)> {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 55342, u'title': u'M... requests: <list(2)> query, imageinfo title: Mahatma Gandhi url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi url_raw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi?action=raw watchers: 1,811 wikibase: Q1001 wikidata_url: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001 }
Get API:Parse data:
>>> page.get_parse() en.wikipedia.org (parse) Gandhi en.wikipedia.org (imageinfo) File:MKGandhi.jpg Mahatma Gandhi (en) data { image: <list(1)> {u'size': 2951123, 'kind': 'parse-image', u'des... infobox: <dict(25)> known_for, other_names, image, signature, bi... iwlinks: <list(10)> https://biblio.wiki/wiki/Mohandas_K._Gandhi,... pageid: 19379 parsetree: <str(331808)> <root><template><title>Redirect</title>... requests: <list(2)> parse, imageinfo title: Mahatma Gandhi wikibase: Q1001 wikidata_url: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001 wikitext: <str(261349)> {{Redirect|Gandhi}}{{pp-move-indef}}{{pp... }
Get Wikidata:
>>> page = wptools.page(wikibase='Q1001') >>> page.get_wikidata() www.wikidata.org (wikidata) Q1001 www.wikidata.org (labels) Q1280678|P535|P434|Q1860|P3762|Q668|P12... www.wikidata.org (labels) P119|Q1930187|P691|P18|P19|P1066|P509|P... www.wikidata.org (labels) Q6512732|Q1568|P972|Q84|P1430|P31|Q2140... www.wikidata.org (labels) P1576|Q4964182|P1368|P140|Q22336956|P12... en.wikipedia.org (imageinfo) File:Portrait Gandhi.jpg Mahatma Gandhi (en) data { aliases: <list(10)> M K Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Bapu, Gandhi, M... claims: <dict(113)> P646, P535, P906, P434, P648, P3762, P1711, ... description: <str(67)> pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism ... image: <list(1)> {u'size': 2951123, 'kind': 'wikidata-image', u'... label: Mahatma Gandhi labels: <dict(171)> Q1280678, P535, Q131149, P434, Q1860, P3762,... modified: <dict(1)> wikidata requests: <list(6)> wikidata, labels, labels, labels, labels, im... title: Mahatma_Gandhi what: human wikibase: Q1001 wikidata: <dict(112)> Geni.com profile ID (P2600), National Libr... wikidata_pageid: 1330 wikidata_url: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001 }
Get RESTBase data:
>>> page.get_restbase('/page/summary/') en.wikipedia.org (restbase) /page/summary/Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi (en) data { description: <str(67)> pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism ... exhtml: <str(1168)> <p>Mahātmā <b>Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi</b>... exrest: <str(931)> Mahātmā Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; Hindust... image: <list(2)> {'kind': 'restbase-original', u'width': 2024, '... pageid: 19379 requests: <list(1)> restbase title: Mahatma_Gandhi url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi url_raw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi?action=raw }
Get all the things (at once):
>>> page.get() en.wikipedia.org (query) Gandhi en.wikipedia.org (parse) 19379 www.wikidata.org (wikidata) Q1001 www.wikidata.org (labels) Q1280678|P535|P434|Q1860|P3762|Q668|P12... www.wikidata.org (labels) P119|Q1930187|P691|P18|P19|P1066|P509|P... www.wikidata.org (labels) Q6512732|Q1568|P972|Q84|P1430|P31|Q2140... www.wikidata.org (labels) P1576|Q4964182|P1368|P140|Q22336956|P12... en.wikipedia.org (restbase) /page/summary/Mahatma_Gandhi en.wikipedia.org (imageinfo) File:MKGandhi.jpg|File:Portrait Gandhi.jpg Mahatma Gandhi (en) data { aliases: <list(10)> M K Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Bapu, Gandhi, M... assessments: <dict(10)> Pakistan, Alternative Views, South Afric... claims: <dict(113)> P646, P535, P906, P434, P648, P3762, P1711, ... description: <str(67)> pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism ... exhtml: <str(1168)> <p>Mahātmā <b>Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi</b>... exrest: <str(931)> Mahātmā Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; Hindust... extext: <str(3077)> Mahātmā **Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi** ( ; H... extract: <str(3372)> <p>Mahātmā <b>Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi</b... image: <list(6)> {u'size': 2951123, 'kind': 'query-pageimage', u... infobox: <dict(25)> known_for, other_names, image, signature, bi... iwlinks: <list(10)> https://biblio.wiki/wiki/Mohandas_K._Gandhi,... label: Mahatma Gandhi labels: <dict(171)> Q1280678, P535, Q131149, P434, Q1860, P3762,... length: 262,790 links: <list(500)> 10 Janpath, 14th Dalai Lama, 1915 Singapore M... modified: <dict(2)> wikidata, page pageid: 19379 parsetree: <str(331808)> <root><template><title>Redirect</title>... random: Salt redirected: <list(1)> {u'to': u'Mahatma Gandhi', u'from': u'Gandhi'} redirects: <list(53)> {u'ns': 0, u'pageid': 55342, u'title': u'M... requests: <list(9)> query, parse, wikidata, labels, labels, labe... title: Mahatma_Gandhi url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi url_raw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi?action=raw watchers: 1,811 what: human wikibase: Q1001 wikidata: <dict(112)> Geni.com profile ID (P2600), National Libr... wikidata_pageid: 1330 wikidata_url: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001 wikitext: <str(261349)> {{Redirect|Gandhi}}{{pp-move-indef}}{{pp... }
Get more (expensive) data:
>>> page.get_more() en.wikipedia.org (querymore) Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi (en) data { categories: <list(68)> Category:1869 births, Category:1948 death... contributors: 2,606 files: <list(53)> File:Aum Om red.svg, File:Commons-logo.svg, Fi... languages: <list(168)> {u'lang': u'af', u'title': u'Mahatma Gand... pageid: 19379 redirected: <list(1)> {u'to': u'Mahatma Gandhi', u'from': u'Gandhi'} requests: <list(1)> querymore title: Mahatma Gandhi views: 19,242 }
Get data in another language:
>>> page = wptools.page(lang='zh') zh.wikipedia.org (random) 🍰 哈莉特·塔布曼 (zh) data { pageid: 211070 title: 哈莉特·塔布曼 }
Get data from another wiki:
>>> page = wptools.page(wiki='en.wikiquote.org') en.wikiquote.org (random) 🍪 Malala_Yousafzai (en) { pageid: 146817 title: Malala_Yousafzai }
Release History
0.4.17 (2018-08-16)
- Support proxy authentication (#130)
- Support page links continuations (#129)
- Support alternate API endpoints (#127)
- Merged @mcepl update to package tests (#125)
- Put API warnings in data attribute (#120)
- Support getting backlinks w/continuations (#119, #122)
- Always respect silent flag (#118)
- Improved infobox parsing (#91, #109)
- Added image (license, assessment) metadata (#104, #105)
- Fixed Wikidata pageid, image bugs (#101, #102)
- Added support for category continuations, subcategories (#99)
- Merged @RobbieClarken fix for non-value Wikidata snaktypes (#98)
- Merged @seansay fix for deleted Wikidata item (#97)
- Fixed TypeError on Windows 10 (#95)
- Fixed RESTBase LookupError on slash titles (#94)
- Added boxterm param for more Infobox reach (#91)
- Improved stress tests, wptool CLI script output
- Fixed get_imageinfo() issue (#93)
- Getting ALL Wikidata (#56)
- Surfaced redirects, disambiguation links (#25)
- Increased test coverage to 95%, pylint score 10.0
- Added more page data, split off expensive queries
- Implemented basic category and site functionality
- Changed page._WIKIPROPS to wikidata.LABELS
- Refactored attributes to only cache, data, flags, params
- Unified Wikimedia APIs access pattern via wptools.core
0.3 (2017-08-13)
- Implemented general RESTBase /page/ access (#67)
- Merged @rikima’s contrib plus py3 patch (#66)
- Made page.info(), query(), response() methods useable
- Improved wiki documentation (see Actions, Attributes)
0.2.3 (2017-04-17)
- Merge @aplz improvement: fetch full lists in infobox values (#62)
- Put HTML extract with wikilinks into ‘exhtml’
- Fix AttributeError bug (#47)
- Refactoring fixes
0.2 (2016-11-06)
- Many fixes/improvements with help of @seansay (thank you!)
- Raise LookupError on API missing page/title
- Consolidated images and caches
- Support get_query() by pageid
- Support proxy, timeout on all API entrypoints
- Support for language variants (e.g. variant=’zh-cn’)
- Support for non-https wikis via wiki=’http://example.com’
- Automatically get_imageinfo() via MediaWiki API:Imageinfo
- moved NOTES.md to wiki
0.1.7 (2016-09-20)
- Minor fixes
- Provide local SSL certs with python-certifi
- Enabled extending Wikidata properties
- Improved cache checking
0.1.4 (2016-09-06)
- Python 3 support!
- Implemented get_claims()
- Patch get_rest() path, tests/test_advanced
- Implemented get_wikidata() by title, lang
- Geo coordinates Property:P625 from Wikidata
- Added RESTBase support, lead attribute
- Made wptools.page() the atomic object
0.1.0 (2016-08-25)
- Many fixes, enhancements.
- ONE CLI SCRIPT TO RULE THEM ALL: wptool.
- Much testing of random (title, lang, and wiki).
- Allow chaining get_s or just get().
- Enabled full-hydration from wikibase only.
- Block further requests on fatal error.
- Get 240x thumbnails instead of default 50x.
- Harmonized silent and verbose arguments.
- Mock-up tests/test_advanced.py.
- Made NOTES.md a knowledge base.
- Use _humans_ in README examples. ;-)
0.0.5 (2016-08-23)
- Major re-write.
- Exposed core.WPTools as entrypoint.
- Added get_parse(), get_query(), and get_wikidata().
- Added get(self) to query all APIs.
- Added show(self) method to display fetched attrs.
- Show instance attributes after each request.
- Ignore requests if attrs will not be updated.
- Enabled language support across APIs.
- Gets random article if no arguments.
- CLI scripts and tests disabled pending update.
0.0.4 (2016-08-16)
- Added wptools.lead.
- Added safe_exit() to CLI scripts.
- Removed a fair amount of unused code.
0.0.3 (2016-08-12)
- Implemented wptools.image choices.
- Added wptools.api to simplify python i/f and CLI scripts.
- Merged @0x9900’s CLI dist fixes.
- A little more test coverage.
- Starting to look like a legit module.
0.0.1 (2015)
- Still better than alternatives for working with articles.
0.0.0 (2012)
- It seems to work!
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