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-------- Original message --------From: Daniel Bosah <dbo...@buffalo.edu> Date:
2/19/18 3:50 PM (GMT-05:00) To: tutor@python.org Subject: How to Load Every
Revised Wikipedia Page Revision
Good day,
I'm doing research for a compsci group. I have a script that is supposed to
load every revised page of a wikipedia article on FDR.
This script is supposed to, in while loop access the wikipedia api and using
the request library, access the apiif the continue is in the requestsupdate the
query dict with continuekeep updating until there are no more 'continue' ( or
until the API load limit is reached )elsebreak
Here is the code:
def GetRevisions(): url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; #gets the api
and sets it to a variable query = { "format": "json", "action":
"query", "titles": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "prop": "revisions",
"rvlimit": 500, }# sets up a dictionary of the arguments of the query
while True: # in a while loop r = requests.get(url, params =
query).json() # does a request call for the url in the parameters of the query
print repr(r) #repr gets the "offical" string output of a object
if 'continue' in r: ## while in the loop, if the keyword is in "r"
query.update(r['continue']) # updates the dictionary to include continue in it,
and keeps on printing out all instances of 'continue" else: # else
break # quit loop
I want to load every page version with the revisions of the wikipedia page, not
just the info about the page revision. How can I go about that?
Thanks
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