Wikipedia
Allows you to get wikipedia content through their API. This uses the alpha API, not the deprecated query.php API type
Wikipedia API reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
Adopted from: http://code.google.com/p/wikipedia-client/
Installation
gem install wikipedia-clientExamples
require 'wikipedia'
page = Wikipedia.find( 'Getting Things Done' )
=> #<Wikipedia:Page>
page.title
=> 'Getting Things Done'
page.fullurl
=> 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done'
page.text
=> 'Getting Things Done is a time-management method...'
page.content
=> # all the wiki markup appears here...
page.summary
=> # only the wiki summary appears here...
page.categories
=> [..., "Category:Self-help books", ...]
page.links
=> [..., "Business", "Cult following", ...]
page.extlinks
=> [..., "http://www.example.com/", ...]
page.images
=> ["File:Getting Things Done.jpg", ...]
page.image_urls
=> ["http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Getting_Things_Done.jpg"]
default width: 200
page.image_thumburls
=> ["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Getting_Things_Done.jpg/200px-Getting_Things_Done.jpg"]
or with custom width argument:
page.image_thumburls(100)
=> ["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Getting_Things_Done.jpg/100px-Getting_Things_Done.jpg"]
page.image_descriptionurls
=> ["http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Getting_Things_Done.jpg"]
page.main_image_url
=> "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Getting_Things_Done.jpg"
page.coordinates
=> [48.853, 2.3498, "", "earth"]
page.templates
=> [..., "Template:About", ...]
page.langlinks
=> {..., "de"=>"Getting Things Done", "eo"=>"Igi aferojn finitaj", "zh"=>"尽管去做", ...}Configuration
This is by default configured like this:
Wikipedia.configure {
domain 'en.wikipedia.org'
path 'w/api.php'
}Advanced
See the API spec at http://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}}}}Contributing
Getting the code, and running the tests
git clone git@github.com:kenpratt/wikipedia-client.git
cd wikipedia-client
gem install bundler
bundle exec rake specPushing a new release of the Gem
Edit lib/wikipedia/version.rb, changing VERSION.
Build the gem: bundle exec gem build wikipedia-client.gemspec
Commit the changes: git commit -a -m 'Version bump to 1.4.0' && git push
Publish the result to RubyGems: bundle exec gem push wikipedia-client-1.4.0.gem
Thanks!
Copyright © 2008 [Cyril David], released under the MIT license
Adopted by Ken Pratt ([email protected]) in 2010/03
Contributors
Aishwarya Subramanian <[email protected]> Bryce <[email protected]> cdr-data <[email protected]> Christian Hellsten <[email protected]> Christopher Quackenbush <[email protected]> Cyril David Francesco Serra <[email protected]> Harman Singh ivobenedito <[email protected]> Justin Harrison <[email protected]> Ken Pratt <[email protected]> Manu Manu <[email protected]> Mike Haugland <[email protected]> Pietro F. Menna <[email protected]> Sophie Rapoport <[email protected]> tsukasaoishi <[email protected]> V <[email protected]> Ilgiz Mustafin <[email protected]>