Wikipedia tools (for Humans)
Project description
Python and command-line MediaWiki access for Humans
get page extracts, image, Infobox data, Wikidata, and more
get a random page, category, or site
get page statistics
get category members
get site info and stats
get data in any language
This package is intended to make it as easy as possible to get data from MediaWiki instances, expose more Wikidata, and extend Wikimedia APIs just for kicks. We say “(for Humans)” because that is a goal. Questions, feedback, and especially contributions are welcome!
Install
$ pip install wptools
✨🦄✨Example
>>> import wptools>>> page = wptools.page('Gandhi')>>> page.get()
en.wikipedia.org (query) Gandhi
en.wikipedia.org (parse) 19379
www.wikidata.org (wikidata) Q1001
www.wikidata.org (claims) Q5|Q129286|Q6512732|Q668
en.wikipedia.org (restbase) /page/summary/Mahatma_Gandhi
en.wikipedia.org (imageinfo) File:Portrait Gandhi.jpg|File:MKGandhi.jpg
Mahatma Gandhi (en) data
{
aliases: <list(10)> M K Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Bapu, Gandhi, M...
claims: <dict(4)> Q5, Q129286, Q6512732, Q668
description: <str(67)> pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism ...
exhtml: <str(1064)> <p>Mahātmā <b>Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi</b>...
exrest: <str(896)> Mahātmā Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; Hindust...
extext: <str(2985)> Mahātmā **Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi** (; Hi...
extract: <str(3212)> <p>Mahātmā <b>Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi</b...
image: <list(6)> {'kind': 'query-pageimage', u'descriptionshortu...
infobox: <dict(25)> known_for, other_names, image, signature, bi...
label: Mahatma Gandhi
length: 264,127
links: <list(10)> https://biblio.wiki/wiki/Mohandas_K._Gandhi, h...
modified: <dict(2)> wikidata, page
pageid: 19379
parsetree: <str(333405)> <root><template><title>Redirect</title>...
properties: <dict(7)> P27, P569, P345, P18, P910, P31, P570
random: Catlins River
title: Mahatma_Gandhi
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
url_raw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi?action=raw
watchers: 1,732
what: human
wikibase: Q1001
wikidata: <dict(7)> category, death, citizenship, image, instanc...
wikidata_url: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001
wikitext: <str(262663)> {{Redirect|Gandhi}}{{pp-move-indef}}{{pp...
}>>> page.get_more()
en.wikipedia.org (querymore) Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi (en) data
{
categories: <list(67)> Category:1869 births, Category:1948 death...
contributors: 2,608
files: <list(52)> File:Aum Om red.svg, File:Commons-logo.svg, Fi...
languages: <list(167)> {u'lang': u'af', u'title': u'Mahatma Gand...
title: Mahatma Gandhi
views: 21,490
}Documentation
See our wiki.
Please enjoy!
@siznax 👹
Release History
0.4 (2017-09-23)
Increased test coverage to 93%, pylint score 10.0
Added more page data, split off expensive queries
Implemented basic category and site functionality
Changed page._WIKIPROPS to wikidata.LABELS
Refactored attributes to only cache, data, flags, params
Unified Wikimedia APIs access pattern via wptools.core
0.3 (2017-08-13)
Implemented general RESTBase /page/ access (#67)
Merged @rikima’s contrib plus py3 patch (#66)
Made page.info(), query(), response() methods useable
Improved wiki documentation (see Actions, Attributes)
0.2.3 (2017-04-17)
Merge @aplz improvement: fetch full lists in infobox values (#62)
Put HTML extract with wikilinks into ‘exhtml’
Fix AttributeError bug (#47)
Refactoring fixes
0.2 (2016-11-06)
Many fixes/improvements with help of @seansay (thank you!)
Raise LookupError on API missing page/title
Consolidated images and caches
Support get_query() by pageid
Support proxy, timeout on all API entrypoints
Support for language variants (e.g. variant=’zh-cn’)
Support for non-https wikis via wiki=’http://example.com’
Automatically get_imageinfo() via MediaWiki API:Imageinfo
moved NOTES.md to wiki
0.1.7 (2016-09-20)
Minor fixes
Provide local SSL certs with python-certifi
Enabled extending Wikidata properties
Improved cache checking
0.1.4 (2016-09-06)
Python 3 support!
Implemented get_claims()
Patch get_rest() path, tests/test_advanced
Implemented get_wikidata() by title, lang
Geo coordinates Property:P625 from Wikidata
Added RESTBase support, lead attribute
Made wptools.page() the atomic object
0.1.0 (2016-08-25)
Many fixes, enhancements.
ONE CLI SCRIPT TO RULE THEM ALL: wptool.
Much testing of random (title, lang, and wiki).
Allow chaining get_s or just get().
Enabled full-hydration from wikibase only.
Block further requests on fatal error.
Get 240x thumbnails instead of default 50x.
Harmonized silent and verbose arguments.
Mock-up tests/test_advanced.py.
Made NOTES.md a knowledge base.
Use _humans_ in README examples. ;-)
0.0.5 (2016-08-23)
Major re-write.
Exposed core.WPTools as entrypoint.
Added get_parse(), get_query(), and get_wikidata().
Added get(self) to query all APIs.
Added show(self) method to display fetched attrs.
Show instance attributes after each request.
Ignore requests if attrs will not be updated.
Enabled language support across APIs.
Gets random article if no arguments.
CLI scripts and tests disabled pending update.
0.0.4 (2016-08-16)
Added wptools.lead.
Added safe_exit() to CLI scripts.
Removed a fair amount of unused code.
0.0.3 (2016-08-12)
Implemented wptools.image choices.
Added wptools.api to simplify python i/f and CLI scripts.
Merged @0x9900’s CLI dist fixes.
A little more test coverage.
Starting to look like a legit module.
0.0.1 (2015)
Still better than alternatives for working with articles.
0.0.0 (2012)
It seems to work!
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