Go-wiki

This is a Golang Wikipedia API wrapper - The Golang module that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia. You can use this module to crawl data for your data warehouse or use it for your "Know-it-all" AI Chatbot.

Go-wiki

Instalation

To install Go-Wiki package, you need to install Go and set your Go workspace first.

You first need Go installed, then you can use the below Go command to install Go-wiki.

go get -u github.com/trietmn/go-wiki

Import it in your code.

import "github.com/trietmn/go-wiki"

Documentation

You can read the documentation at: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/trietmn/go-wiki

I will update a full tutorial article on some popular blog as soon as possiple.

Quick start

# assume the following codes in example.go file
$ cat example.go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/trietmn/go-wiki"
)

func main() {
    // Search for the Wikipedia page title
    search_result, _, err := gowiki.Search("Why is the sky blue", 3, false)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
    fmt.Printf("This is your search result: %v\n", search_result)

    // Get the page
    page, err := gowiki.GetPage("Rafael Nadal", -1, false, true)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }

    // Get the content of the page
    content, err := page.GetContent()
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
    fmt.Printf("This is the page content: %v\n", content)
}

# run example.go
$ go run example.go

Functions Examples

Note: The functions below are functions that you would usually use. Read the document to see all the functions.

1. Search

search_result, suggestion, err := gowiki.Search("Why is the sky blue", 3, true)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Search result: %v\n", search_result)
fmt.Printf("Suggestion: %v\n", suggestion)

2. GetPage (There are multiple page methods in the Wikipedia Page Methods)

page, err := gowiki.GetPage("Rafael Nadal", -1, false, true)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
}
// Then now you can use the page methods

3. Suggest

suggestion, err := gowiki.Suggest("nadal")
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Suggestion: %v\n", suggestion)

4. Geosearch

res, err := gowiki.GeoSearch(40.67693, 117.23193, -1, "", -1)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Geosearch result: %v\n", res)

5. GetRandom

res, err := gowiki.GetRandom(5)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Random titles: %v\n", res)

6. Summary

res, err := gowiki.Summary("Rafael Nadal", 5, -1, false, true)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Summary: %v\n", res)

Wikipedia Page Methods

Methods	Description	Example
Equal	Check if 2 pages are equal to each other	page1.Equal(page2)
GetContent	Get the page content	page.GetContent()
GetHTML	Get the page HTML	page.GetHTML()
GetRevisionID	Get revid field of a page	page.GetRevisionID()
GetParentID	Get parentid field of a page	page.GetParentID()
GetSummary	Get the summary of the page	page.GetSummary()
GetImagesURL	Get all of the image URL appear in the page	page.GetImageURL()
GetCoordinate	Get the page coordinate if exist	page.GetCoordinate()
GetReference	Get all of the extenal links in the page	page.GetReference()
GetLink	Get all the titles of Wikipedia page links on a page	page.GetLink()
GetCategory	Get all of the categories of a page	page.GetCategory()
GetSectionList	Get all of the sections of the page	page.GetSectionList()
GetSection	Get the content of a specific section in the page	page.GetSection("History")

License

MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file for full details.

About me

Connect with me on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/triet-m-nguyen-a94b4b20b/

Credit

Python Wikipedia by goldsmith as inspiration.
The Wikimedia Foundation for giving the world free access to data.

fever365 / go-wiki Goto Github PK

go-wiki's Introduction