Demonstrates extraction of JSON data from a Wikipedia API request - does NOT use the Python library wikipedia-api

wikipedia_API.py

"""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"])

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

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.