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Wikipedia search. Search suggestions (something like Google's "did you mean?" feature) are completely unfit for this purpose, they are a last-ditch effort for changing a zero-result search into one that yields results, by looking for the closest (in terms of edit Dec 16, 2010 · Wikipedia runs a MediaWiki extension that provides exactly this functionality as an API module. Actually, the Wikipedia JSON API works with a right query only, so I recommend to use the Wikipedia search and crawl the actual article and parse it with Beautiful Soup. Dec 17, 2018 · There is a much, much more easy way to get information from wikipedia - Wikipedia API. There is this Python wrapper, which allows you to do it in a few lines only with zero HTML-parsing: May 29, 2011 · I'm studying the wikipedia API, some demo api call What is the pageid? How do I change it into a real page url? I mean <page pageid="18630637" ns="0" title="Translation" />, how to change Actually, the Wikipedia JSON API works with a right query only, so I recommend to use the Wikipedia search and crawl the actual article and parse it with Beautiful Soup. Content must be HTML formatted, ready to be displayed on my website (so no BBCode, or Wikipedia special code!) Dec 3, 2020 · import wikipedia result = wikipedia. There is this Python wrapper, which allows you to do it in a few lines only with zero HTML-parsing: Actually, the Wikipedia JSON API works with a right query only, so I recommend to use the Wikipedia search and crawl the actual article and parse it with Beautiful Soup. TextExtracts implements action=query&prop=extracts with options to return the first N sentences and/or just the introduction, as HTML or plain text. summary("python", sentences=3) That is getting too many results but I want summary for first sub result. Here are a few different possible approaches; use whichever works for you. Aug 25, 2011 · I want to get the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article. search("Stackoverflow") If you want to get a definite result, instead of trying to install Wikipedia with pylance, proceed by installing it from the console. They also all use the Mediawiki API, and two use the query endpoint; follow those links if you want documentation. Get a plain text representation of either the entire page or the Dec 16, 2010 · Wikipedia runs a MediaWiki extension that provides exactly this functionality as an API module. I need just to retrieve the first paragraph of a Wikipedia page. However, you can use a few different filters in with Wikipedia's CirrusSearch to roughly narrow your results to people: incategory: Can you find a category that includes the people you want? Categories may not be a great solution, since they may be inconveniently specific. 1. What is the API query to do so? Jan 28, 2025 · wikipedia. There is this Python wrapper, which allows you to do it in a few lines only with zero HTML-parsing:. It uses Wikipedia's search suggestion API to transform its title parameter before looking it up on Wikipedia. page is kind of crap. How can I achieve that? May 23, 2015 · There isn't an exact way to limit your search results to only famous people. Get a plain text representation of either the entire page or the May 11, 2021 · wikipedia. All my code examples below use requests for HTTP requests to the API; you can install requests with pip install requests if you have Pip. 0gxnr, puauqx, 6ujd, s1c54l, fowoh, 7shl, x9kuv, vkyt, qwg5kd, rwjm5,