Wikipedia API in Python

In this video, I’ll show you how we can implement Wikipedia API in Python to fetch information from a Wikipedia article. Let’s see how to do it-

First we have to install Wikipedia. To install it, open your command prompt or terminal and type this command-

"pip install wikipedia"

That’s all we have to do. Now we can fetch the data from Wikipedia very easily –

To get the summary of an article using Wikipedia API-
import wikipedia

output- it will fetch the summary of google from wikipedia and print it on the screen.

To get a given number of sentences from the summary of an article using Wikipedia API-
import wikipedia

output - Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
same way you can pass any number as a parameter to get the number of sentences you want.


To change the language of the article using Wikipedia API -
import wikipedia

output – Google (prononcé [ˈguːgəl]) est une entreprise américaine de services technologiques fondée en 1998 dans la Silicon Valley, en Californie, par Larry Page et Sergueï Brin, créateurs du moteur de recherche Google.
Here fr stands for French. You can use any other code instead of fr to get the information in other language. But make sure that the Wikipedia should have that article in the language you want.


To search to get the Titles of the artcles-
import wikipedia

output - ['Google', 'Google+', 'Google Maps', 'Google Search', 'Google Translate', 'Google Chrome', '.google', 'Google Earth', 'Gmail', 'Google Scholar']

the method search() will return a list which consist of all the article’s titles that we can open.

To get the URL of the article-

import wikipedia

To get the Title of the article-
import wikipedia

output- Google

To get complete article-
import wikipedia

output- complete article from starting to end will be printed on the screen

To get the images included in article-
import wikipedia

So it will return us the URL of the particular image present at index 0. To fetch another image use 1, 2, 3 . . . . . according to images present in the article.
But if you want image to be downloaded into your local directory instead of printing the result then we can use urllib. Here’s the program which will help you to download an image from the link.
import wikipedia

import urllib
import wikipedia

If you’ve any problem or suggestion related with this article then please comment below.

[Astrovic]

is there a possibility to get the content of the page with all its html tags? or the whole page in a json type format just for better parsing options

[aamirraza]

I'm addicted to ur channel bhai ☺😀

[rahulpyasi]

AttributeError: partially initialized module 'wikipedia' has no attribute 'summary' (most likely due to a circular import)

Program working fine but when I try to find anything then i get this error.

As per PIP command Wikipedia installed.

[RuiSilvinha]

How can I use wikipedia api to get that table on the right?

[chinmaykhare]

It is still showing, ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'wikipedia' (pycharm)

[Preeteshverma]

Hi sir Ian getting error"remote disconnected" please tell how to solve this

[anjalinaik]

It show wikipedia is not a module.I am run in pycharm .

[tabishadnan]

Sir please show wiki results on browser in the form of HTML page

[erredi]

How can i change Language of wikipedia summary?

[anjalinaik]

Yes I do and in cmd also show successfully installed but I get error.

[shubhamarora]

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