Wikipedia

Explore Wikipedia API and how we can use it.

Wikipedia is free crowd-sourced encyclopedia. It is constantly updated and has millions of articles.

Wikipedia also has a simple API that’s been wrapped for Python in the wikipedia package.

Getting started

Let’s install it and see how we might use it!

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pip3 install wikipedia

The wikipedia package depends on BeautifulSoup and the requests package. Fortunately, it will install them or upgrade them itself if they are missing or out-of-date. ...