Grab some text from a random, featured Wikipedia page. Useful for testing.

requirements.txt

pyquery==1.2.4

wp.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import requests
from pyquery import PyQuery as pq

wiki_link = 'http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-featured.php'


def retrieve_article():
    article = requests.get(wiki_link)
    text = pq(article.text)
    title = text('#firstHeading').find('span').text()
    first_paragraph = text('#mw-content-text').find('p').eq(1).text()

    if first_paragraph is None or first_paragraph == '':
        retrieve_article()
    else:
        print title + '\n' + first_paragraph + '\n' + article.url


if __name__ == '__main__':
    retrieve_article()