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Wikipedia is a Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia.
Search Wikipedia, get article summaries, get data like links and images
from a page, and more. Wikipedia wraps the MediaWiki API <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API>__ so you can focus on using
Wikipedia data, not getting it.
.. code:: python
import wikipedia print wikipedia.summary("Wikipedia")
wikipedia.search("Barack")
ny = wikipedia.page("New York") ny.title
ny.url
ny.content
ny.links[0]
wikipedia.set_lang("fr") wikipedia.summary("Facebook", sentences=1)
Note: this library was designed for ease of use and simplicity, not for advanced use. If you plan on doing serious scraping or automated requests, please use Pywikipediabot <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot>__ (or one of the other more advanced Python MediaWiki API wrappers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot#Python>__), which has a larger API, rate limiting, and other features so we can be considerate of the MediaWiki infrastructure.
To install Wikipedia, simply run:
::
$ pip install wikipedia
Wikipedia is compatible with Python 2.6+ (2.7+ to run unittest discover) and Python 3.3+.
Read the docs at https://wikipedia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.
Quickstart <https://wikipedia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html>__Full API <https://wikipedia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/code.html>__To run tests, clone the respository on GitHub <https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia>__, then run:
::
$ pip install -r requirements.txt $ bash runtests # will run tests for python and python3 $ python -m unittest discover tests/ '*test.py' # manual style
in the root project directory.
To build the documentation yourself, after installing requirements.txt, run:
::
$ pip install sphinx $ cd docs/ $ make html
MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file <https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia/blob/master/LICENSE>__ for
full details.
wiki-api <https://github.com/richardasaurus/wiki-api>__ by
@richardasaurus for inspirationWikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>__ for giving
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Wikipedia API for Python
We found that wikipedia 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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