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a simple warper for the wikipedia api
pip install simplewiki
start by setting up
import simplewiki
wiki = simplewiki.wikipedia()
then you can get some search results
wiki.search("cats",5)
this will return a list of results and page ids:
[('Bengal cat', '63064'), ('Cat', '6678'), ('Cats, Cats, Cats!', '68799268'), ('Cats (musical)', '215013'), ('Tabby cat', '6412655')]
you can take one of the page ids a summarize it
wiki.summary(6678)
this will return a tuple with the title and summary
('Cat', 'The cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the-')
but what if we just want to get the page?
wiki.html(6678)
this will return the raw html as a string:
...link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"/><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r10...
congrats you now have the wikipedia api at you fingertips
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a package to simplify the wikipedia api
We found that simplewiki demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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