Get a random article from the dbpedia

dbpedia.py

from SPARQLWrapper import SPARQLWrapper, JSON
import requests
from urllib.request import unquote

#   PREFIX dbpedia-owl: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
#   PREFIX dbpprop: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
#   PREFIX dbres: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
#
#   SELECT ?abstract WHERE {
#    dbres:Abijah_Beckwith_(Wisconsin) dbpedia-owl:abstract ?abstract.
#   }

def abstract(name):
    sparql = SPARQLWrapper("http://dbpedia.org/sparql")
    sparql.setQuery("""
    PREFIX dbpedia-owl: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
    PREFIX dbpprop: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
    PREFIX dbres: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>

    SELECT ?abstract WHERE {{
     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/{}> dbpedia-owl:abstract ?abstract.
     FILTER langMatches(lang(?abstract),"en")
    }}""".format(name))
    
    sparql.setReturnFormat(JSON)
    results = sparql.query().convert()
    bindings = results["results"]["bindings"]

    if bindings:
        return bindings[0]["abstract"]["value"]
    else:
        return None

res = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random')
# res.url is the redirected url
# we just extract the page name from there, and start the SPARQL
resname = res.url.split('/')[-1]

abst = abstract(unquote(resname))
if abst:
    print(abst)