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Use Python Wikipedia-API to get text summary for any subject in a list of subjects
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| """ | |
| Requires Wikipedia-API 0.5.1 or greater - and Python 3 | |
| https://pypi.org/project/Wikipedia-API/ | |
| """ | |
| import wikipediaapi | |
| w = wikipediaapi.Wikipedia('en') | |
| p = w.page('N._K._Jemisin') | |
| # print exactly 2 sentences from summary | |
| print(w.extracts(p, exsentences=2)) | |
| # print exactly 6 sentences from summary | |
| # note - not all extracts have that many sentences | |
| print(w.extracts(p, exsentences=6)) |
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| """ | |
| Requires Wikipedia-API and Python 3 | |
| https://pypi.org/project/Wikipedia-API/ | |
| """ | |
| import wikipediaapi | |
| w = wikipediaapi.Wikipedia(language='en', extract_format=wikipediaapi.ExtractFormat.WIKI) | |
| subjects = ['N. K. Jemisin', 'Cixin Liu', 'Ann Leckie', 'John Scalzi', 'Red G. Bloo', 'Jo Walton'] | |
| for subject in subjects: | |
| p = w.page(subject) | |
| if p.exists(): | |
| print(p.summary, '\n') | |
| print(p.fullurl, '\n') | |
| else: | |
| print(subject + ": No information available.\n") |
The package was updated April 7 to allow selection of extract length by number of sentences. @martin-majlis is amazing!
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Only way to control length of summary is with split:
p.summary[0:60]Regular API can get an extract, different from summary (shorter), but I haven't found a way to get this with Wikipedia-API.
Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exintro&explaintext&exsentences=3& format=json&titles=Arundhati_Roy.