The wikipedia Library in Python

The wikipedia library in Python provides a simple and easy-to-use interface for accessing data from Wikipedia.

It acts as a wrapper around the Wikipedia API, allowing you to retrieve Wikipedia content such as 

• articles, summaries, links, and more with minimal effort.
  • Compared to using the inbuilt JSON lib.
•  It abstracts the complexities of making HTTP requests to the API

The library allows you to:

• Search and fetch articles on/from Wikipedia.
•  Get the full/extract content of a page or a random article.
• Handle disambiguation errors when multiple results are found.
• Work with content in multiple languages.
• Get additional metadata such as links, categories, and sections.

Before you can use the library you need to install the API Python Library: 

You can install it using pip:

• pip install wikipedia

Here is the list of methods in the wikipedia Python library:

1. wikipedia.search(query, results=10, suggestion=True)
2. wikipedia.summary(title, sentences=1)
3. wikipedia.page(title)
4. wikipedia.random()
5. wikipedia.set_lang(lang)
6. wikipedia.set_rate_limit(True/False)
7. wikipedia.page(title).content
8. wikipedia.page(title).url
9. wikipedia.page(title).title
10. wikipedia.page(title).links
11. wikipedia.page(title).categories
12. wikipedia.page(title).sections
13. wikipedia.page(title).images
14. wikipedia.exceptions.DisambiguationError
15. wikipedia.exceptions.RedirectError
16. wikipedia.exceptions.HTTPTimeoutError

Fetching a random page using the wikipedia library in Python:

import wikipedia
# Fetch a random article title
random_article = wikipedia.random()
# Fetch the summary (extract) of the random article
extract = wikipedia.summary(random_article)
# Print the random article title and its summary
print(f"Random article title: {random_article}")
print(f"Extract: {extract}")