wikihappy

Wikipedia with sections

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 <https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia>__

.. code:: python

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 <https://github.com/sachavakili/Wikipedia/blob/master/LICENSE>__ for full details.

Credits

• Wikipedia <https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia>__ by Jonathan Goldsmith for the original repository
• wiki-api <https://github.com/richardasaurus/wiki-api>__ by @richardasaurus for inspiration
• @nmoroze and @themichaelyang for feedback and suggestions
• The Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>__ for giving the world free access to data