MediaWiki

*mediawiki* is a python wrapper and parser for the MediaWiki API. The goal is to allow users to quickly and efficiently pull data from the MediaWiki site of their choice instead of worrying about dealing directly with the API. As such, it does not force the use of a particular MediaWiki site. It defaults to Wikipedia but other MediaWiki sites can also be used.

MediaWiki wraps the MediaWiki API so you can focus on leveraging your favorite MediaWiki site's data, not getting it. Please check out the code on github!

Note: this library was designed for ease of use and simplicity. If you plan on doing serious scraping, automated requests, or editing, please look into Pywikibot which has a larger API, advanced rate limiting, and other features so we may be considerate of the MediaWiki infrastructure. Pywikibot has also other extra features such as support for Wikibase (that runs Wikidata).

Installation

Pip Installation:

$ pip install pymediawiki

To install from source:

To install mediawiki, simply clone the repository on GitHub, then run from the folder:

$ python setup.py install

mediawiki supports python versions 3.5 - 3.9

For python 2.7 support, install release 0.6.7

$ pip install pymediawiki==0.6.7

Documentation

Documentation of the latest release is hosted on readthedocs.io

To build the documentation yourself run:

$ pip install sphinx
$ cd docs/
$ make html

Automated Tests

To run automated tests, one must simply run the following command from the downloaded folder:

$ python setup.py test

Quickstart

Import mediawiki and run a standard search against Wikipedia:

>>> from mediawiki import MediaWiki
>>> wikipedia = MediaWiki()
>>> wikipedia.search('washington')

Run more advanced searches:

>>> wikipedia.opensearch('washington')
>>> wikipedia.allpages('a')
>>> wikipedia.geosearch(title='washington, d.c.')
>>> wikipedia.geosearch(latitude='0.0', longitude='0.0')
>>> wikipedia.prefixsearch('arm')
>>> wikipedia.random(pages=10)

Pull a MediaWiki page and some of the page properties:

>>> p = wikipedia.page('Chess')
>>> p.title
>>> p.summary
>>> p.categories
>>> p.images
>>> p.links
>>> p.langlinks

See the documentation for more examples!

Changelog

Please see the changelog for a list of all changes.

License

MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file for full details.