Allows you to get wikipedia content through their API. This uses the
alpha API, not the deprecated query.php API type
Wikipedia API reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
Adopted from: https://code.google.com/p/wikipedia-client/
gem install wikipedia-clientrequire 'wikipedia'
page = Wikipedia.find( 'Getting Things Done' )
=> #<Wikipedia:Page>
page.title
=> 'Getting Things Done'
page.content
=> # all the wiki markup appears here...
page.categories
=> [..., "Category:Self-help books", ...]
page.links
=> [..., "Business", "Cult following", ...]
page.extlinks
=> [..., "https://www.example.com/", ...]
page.images
=> ["File:Getting Things Done.jpg", ...]
page.image_urls
=> ["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Getting_Things_Done.jpg"]
page.image_descriptionurls
=> ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Getting_Things_Done.jpg"]
page.thumb_url
=> ["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Getting_Things_Done.jpg/100px-Getting_Things_Done.jpg"]
page.coordinates
=> [48.853, 2.3498, "", "earth"]
page.templates
=> [..., "Template:About", ...]This is by default configured like this:
Wikipedia.Configure {
domain 'en.wikipedia.org'
path 'w/api.php'
}See the API spec at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
If you need data that is not already present, you can override
parameters.
For example, to retrieve only the page info:
page = Wikipedia.find( 'Getting Things Done', :prop => "info" )
page.title
=> "Getting Things Done"
page.raw_data
=> {"query"=>{"pages"=>{"959928"=>{"pageid"=>959928, "ns"=>0,
"title"=>"Getting Things Done", "touched"=>"2010-03-10T00:04:09Z",
"lastrevid"=>348481810, "counter"=>0, "length"=>7891}}}}To retrieve a scaled image thumbnail with 100px width:
page = Wikipedia.find_image( "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Getting_Things_Done.jpg", :iiurlwidth =>"100" )
page.thumb_url
=> ["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Getting_Things_Done.jpg/100px-Getting_Things_Done.jpg"]
Scale by height using `:iiurlheight` parameter.
if you have rspec >= 1.1.3 installed just type in
rake spec
Copyright © 2008 [Cyril David], released under the MIT license
Adopted by Ken Pratt ([email protected]) in 2010/03