Example for calling SNPedia API from python

save_snips.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import mwclient
from mwclient import Site

def save_snips(agent, site, path):
    """
    http://snpedia.com/index.php/Bulk
    https://mwclient.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/page-ops.html
    gets all snips from snpedia
    """
    f = open(path, "w")
    for i, page in enumerate(site.Categories['Is_a_snp']):
        f.write(page.name)
        f.write('\n')

def get_snpedia_content(agent, site, snips, output_dir):
    """
    grabs pages 
    """
    for sn in snips:
        with open(f'{output_dir}/{sn}.txt', "w") as f:
            page = site.pages[sn]
            f.write(page.text())

def load_snips(path):
    with open(path, "r") as f:
        return f.read().splitlines() 

def _main():

    agent = 'MySNPBot. Run by User:[email protected] Using mwclient/' + mwclient.__version__
    site = mwclient.Site('bots.snpedia.com', path='/',clients_useragent=agent)

    # uncomment this line if you want to grap snips first
    # save_snips(agent, site, "./snips.txt")    
    snips = load_snips("bioc-data/snips-nebula.txt") 
    # these are snips from my nebula reports

    get_snpedia_content(agent, site, snips, "bioc-data")

    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    _main()