On 19.02.18,15:50, Daniel Bosah wrote: > 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 api > if the continue is in the requests > update the query dict with continue > keep updating until there are no more 'continue' ( or until the API load > limit is reached ) > else > break > > 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? >
There are different kinds of Python Wikipedia APIs available. Do you try any of these? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wikipedia http://wikipedia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code.html#api https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Wikipedia-API https://github.com/richardasaurus/wiki-api Jostein _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
