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Demonstrates extraction of JSON data from a Wikipedia API request - does NOT use the Python library wikipedia-api
"""Demonstrates extraction of data from a Wikipedia API request"""
import requests
API_URL = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&origin=*&format=json&generator=search&gsrnamespace=0&gsrlimit=10&gsrsearch={}'
search_term = "David_Bowie"
data = requests.get(API_URL.format(search_term)).json()
# put the pages from the result JSON into a list
dict = data["query"]["pages"]
for v in dict.values():
print(v["pageid"])
print(v["title"])
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macloo commented Mar 1, 2022

If you are unfamiliar with Python string formatters (see line 9 in the gist here), this is a good introduction to them:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-string-formatters-in-python-3

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macloo commented Mar 1, 2022

There is (also, alternatively) a more compact way to write string formatters:

https://realpython.com/python-f-strings/#simple-syntax

In my opinion, that would not work as well here — but in other cases, I do prefer the compact style.

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