wikipedia Python Library

Install the wikipedia package using pip to start using the library in your Python projects.

$ pip install wikipedia

To build the documentation locally, install sphinx, navigate to the docs/ directory, and use make html.

$ pip install sphinx
$ cd docs/
$ make html

Install the wikipedia library using pip to access Wikipedia data in your Python projects.

Compatibility:

• Python 2.6+
• Python 3.3+
• (Python 2.7+ required to run unittest discover)

$ pip install wikipedia

To run the test suite, clone the repository and follow these steps in the root directory:

1. Install requirements.
2. Run the runtests bash script (covers both Python 2 and 3) or use unittest discover manually.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ bash runtests
# OR manual style:
$ python -m unittest discover tests/ '*test.py'

When using wikipedia.summary, be prepared to handle two specific exceptions:

• wikipedia.exceptions.DisambiguationError: Raised when the query matches multiple distinct pages. You can access the options attribute on the exception object to see the possible matches.
• wikipedia.exceptions.PageError: Raised when the query does not match any Wikipedia pages.

Use the wikipedia.summary() function to retrieve a brief summary of a Wikipedia article by providing the article title. This is useful for quickly getting the introductory text of a page.

import wikipedia

print wikipedia.summary("Wikipedia")
# Output: Wikipedia (/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ WIK-i-PEE-dee-ə) is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation...

Use wikipedia.set_lang(lang_code) to switch the language of the Wikipedia data being accessed (e.g., 'fr' for French).

import wikipedia

wikipedia.set_lang("fr")
# Subsequent calls will now use the French Wikipedia