# Wikipedia
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**NLPiA2-Wikipedia** Thin Python wrapper for Wikipedia API
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.
```python
>>> from wikipedia import wikipedia as wiki
>>> print wiki.summary("Wikipedia")
Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ WIK-i-PEE-dee-ə) is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation...
>>> wiki.search("Barack")
['Barak (given name)', 'Barack Obama', ... 'Presidential transition of Barack Obama']
>>> titles = wiki.search("New York")
>>> page = wiki.page(titles[1])
>>> page.title
'New York (State)'
>>> page.url
'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(state)'
>>> page.content
'New York, sometimes called New York State...'
>>> page.summary
'New York, sometimes called New York State...'
>>> page.links[0]
'10 Hudson Yards'
>>> wiki.set_lang("fr")
>>> wiki.summary("Facebook", sentences=1)
Facebook est un service de réseautage social en ligne sur Internet permettant d'y publier des informations (photographies, liens, textes, etc.) en contrôlant leur visibilité par différentes catégories de personnes.
```
(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.
## Installation
To install Wikipedia, simply run:
$ pip install nlpia2-wikipedia
Wikipedia is compatible with Python 2.6+ (2.7+ to run unittest discover)
and Python 3.3+.
## Documentation
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 [repository 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
## License
MIT licensed. See the [LICENSE
file](https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia/blob/master/LICENSE) for
full details.
## Credits
- [Wikipedia](https://pypi.org/project/wikipedia)
- [Pywikipediabot](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot)
- [wiki-api](https://github.com/richardasaurus/wiki-api) by \@richardasaurus
- [Wikimedia Foundation](http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home) for giving the world free access to knowledge
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