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Python wrapper for the MediaWiki API to access and parse data from Wikipedia
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MediaWikiAPI is a Python library that makes it easy to access and parsedata from Wikipedia.
Search Wikipedia, get article summaries, get data like links and imagesfrom a page, and more. Wikipedia wraps theMediaWiki API so you can focus on usingWikipedia data, not getting it.
>>>frommediawikiapiimportMediaWikiAPI>>>mediawikiapi=MediaWikiAPI()>>>print(mediawikiapi.summary("Wikipedia"))# Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ WIK-i-PEE-dee-ə) is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation...>>>mediawikiapi.search("Barack")# [u'Barak (given name)', u'Barack Obama', u'Barack (brandy)', u'Presidency of Barack Obama', u'Family of Barack Obama', u'First inauguration of Barack Obama', u'Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008', u'Barack Obama, Sr.', u'Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories', u'Presidential transition of Barack Obama']>>>ny=mediawikiapi.page("New York (state)")>>>ny.title# u'New York (state)'>>>ny.url# u'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(state)'>>>ny.content# u'New York is a state in the northeastern United States. New York was one of the original thir'...>>>ny.links[0]# u'1790 United States Census'>>>mediawikiapi.config.language="fr">>>mediawikiapi.summary("Facebook",sentences=1)# Facebook est un service de réseautage social en ligne sur Internet permettant d'y publier des informations (photographies, liens, textes, etc.) en contrôlant leur visibilité par différentes catégories de personnes.
To install MediaWikiAPI, simply run:
pip install mediawikiapi
MediaWikiAPI is compatible with Python 3.
Changelog could be find in the documentation.
The documentation is availablehere
To run tests, clone therepository on GitHub, then run:
poetry install poetry buildpoetry run pytest --junitxml=pytest.xml --cov-report=term-missing:skip-covered --cov=mediawikiapi
in the root project directory.
To build the documentation yourself, after installing requirements.txt, run:
pip install sphinxcd docs/make htmlTo run formatter and mypy run:
poetry run mypy --strict .poetry run flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statisticspoetry run black --diff --check .To build the documentation run:
poetry run sphinx-build docs/source docs/buildMIT licensed. See theLICENSE file forfull details.
- @goldsmith for making such a fantastic library to fork
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