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Getting Wikipedia Article's summary using WIkimedia page content rest api and Random article generation
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import requests | |
random_article = requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random") | |
article_name = random_article.url.split("/")[-1] | |
url = f"https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/{article_name}" | |
article_data = requests.get(url).json() | |
print(article_data) | |
{'type': 'standard', | |
'title': 'Vohimasina Nord', | |
'displaytitle': 'Vohimasina Nord', | |
'namespace': {'id': 0, 'text': ''}, | |
'wikibase_item': 'Q3562106', | |
'titles': {'canonical': 'Vohimasina_Nord', | |
'normalized': 'Vohimasina Nord', | |
'display': 'Vohimasina Nord'}, | |
'pageid': 17242081, | |
'thumbnail': {'source': 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Madagascar_location_map.svg/176px-Madagascar_location_map.svg.png', | |
'width': 176, | |
'height': 320}, | |
'originalimage': {'source': 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Madagascar_location_map.svg', | |
'width': 803, | |
'height': 1458}, | |
'lang': 'en', | |
'dir': 'ltr', | |
'revision': '771610717', | |
'tid': '57cd8e80-e88e-11e9-a507-c511d8eeb481', | |
'timestamp': '2017-03-22T15:05:24Z', | |
'description': 'Place in Vatovavy-Fitovinany, Madagascar', | |
'coordinates': {'lat': -21.73333333, 'lon': 48.13333333}, | |
'content_urls': {'desktop': {'page': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vohimasina_Nord', | |
'revisions': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vohimasina_Nord?action=history', | |
'edit': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vohimasina_Nord?action=edit', | |
'talk': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vohimasina_Nord'}, | |
'mobile': {'page': 'https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vohimasina_Nord', | |
'revisions': 'https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Vohimasina_Nord', | |
'edit': 'https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vohimasina_Nord?action=edit', | |
'talk': 'https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vohimasina_Nord'}}, | |
'api_urls': {'summary': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Vohimasina_Nord', | |
'metadata': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/metadata/Vohimasina_Nord', | |
'references': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/references/Vohimasina_Nord', | |
'media': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/media/Vohimasina_Nord', | |
'edit_html': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Vohimasina_Nord', | |
'talk_page_html': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Talk:Vohimasina_Nord'}, | |
'extract': 'Vohimasina Nord is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Manakara, which is a part of Vatovavy-Fitovinany Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 22,000 in 2001 commune census.', | |
'extract_html': '<p><b>Vohimasina Nord</b> is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Manakara, which is a part of Vatovavy-Fitovinany Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 22,000 in 2001 commune census.</p>'} |
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