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I'm trying to get a JSON result with a set of random pages from Wikipedia, including their titles, content and images. I've played around with their API sandbox, and so far the best I've got is t...
0. try to use cmlimit to get all of the catgeorymembers, then use a programming language, like Python to request the page, then store every catgeory in an array, and use the random module to get a random catgeorymember from the array you stored them in. then you can use it in a link to get the specific page for the categorymember or anything ...
I am using python 2.7 with wikipedia package to retrieve the text from multiple random wikipedia pages as explained in the docs. I use the following code def get_random_pages_summary(pages = 0)...
So i am trying to scrape links from a random wikipedia page here is my code thus far: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import requests import pandas as pd import urllib2 # function get random page def
The closest thing you can do is to get a random page from e.g. Category:Science or one of its subcategories. There is no way to do that directly using the API, you would need to traverse all the subcategories and choose a random page from them by yourself. There is a tool that already does this (with a limit on the depth of the category tree ...
The publicly available database replica includes a random number for each page, you'll have to reimplement the RandomInCategory logic on top of that, with an extra condition for the page_assessments table thrown in.
I have this Random Wikipedia Article Generator that I have created but I want that it will generate an article about a specific topic and for some reason, it generates articles but not about the to...
1. So the Random Article feature of Wikipedia gives a random article, I can also use RandomInCategory and specify categories I want, which is what I need. Now I want to get all the text inside the articles giving some conditions/limitations: Only get the text of the article, no images/link/tables etc... Ignore some sections (References, Notable ...
One could still do much work removing stuff like categories and Wikipedia warnings ["this page needs to be expanded"], but it is a good starting point. (Parsing Wikitext is super difficult, and here you don't have to do it.)
6. Here's information on that. Every article is assigned a random number between 0 and 1 when it is created (these are indexed in SQL, which is what makes selection fast). When you click random article it generates a target random number and then returns the article whose recorded random number is closest to this target.