Hello sir. I was trying to build a project where I need to import wikipedia module. I installed it with "pip install wikipedia". Then I checked the settings in Pycharm and added the module in the existing list of modules. But whenever I try to import it with "import wikipedia", the line gets faded saying "unused import statement". And thus unable to import the module in Pycharm. But the statement works in python IDLE. I tried troubleshoots from google and stack overflow, but nothing solved my problem. Now looking for your help.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

This change adds a lang_links property method to WikipediaPage, which returns a list of links to versions of the Wikipedia page in different languages. The result is a list of (language_prefix, title) tuples.

For example:

    wikipedia.summary('recommendation')

gives the following error and terminates the program:

    290       may_refer_to = [li.a.get_text() for li in filtered_lis if li.a]
    291 
--> 292       raise DisambiguationError(self.title, may_refer_to)
    293 
    294     else:

DisambiguationError: "Recommendation" may refer to: 
norm (philosophy)
Recommender systems
European Union recommendation
W3C recommendation
letter of recommendation

Perhaps a better response, maybe in a JSON format, would help? without termination, and instead ask for further clarification?

When requesting some pages via WikipediaPage():

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 224, in __init__
    self.load(redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 276, in load
    self.__init__(title, redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 224, in __init__
    self.load(redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 296, in load
    self.url = data['fullurl']
KeyError: 'fullurl'

I think it may be due to case & whitespace in the article title string? In any case, raising a PageError in this case may be more appropriate to pass back to the client.

>>> import wikipedia
>>> wikipedia.page('Fully connected network', auto_suggest=False, redirect=True)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 211, in page
    return WikipediaPage(title, redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 224, in __init__
    self.load(redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 276, in load
    self.__init__(title, redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 224, in __init__
    self.load(redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 250, in load
    pages = request['query']['pages']
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str

Hi. This is my first pull request, so please bear with me. I like your library, but I need revids. This breaks the tests, so I don't expect you to apply. I don't see how to fix the tests automatically. Do you have something you run that regenerates the request_mock_data file or do I just grub around in it?

Thanks for your time,

Calling a series of searches like wikipedia.search(item, results=1) occasionally results in the error:

File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 47, in search
    search_results = (d['title'] for d in raw_results['query']['search'])
KeyError: 'query'

This is because the raw_results dict looks like this: {u'servedby': u'mw1118', u'error': {u'info': u'HTTP request timed out.', u'code': u'srsearch-error'}}

Maybe it would be better if some sort of HTTP exception was thrown instead of the key error? That is, if I'm understanding what's happening correctly.

Awesome work on this @goldsmith ! Using it at a hackathon atm.

Seems to be a type in requirements.txt on version 0.9.4 on PyPi, this is what I get at the moment

beautifulsoup4==4.3.11
nose==1.3.0
requests==1.2.3
wsgiref==0.1.2

The latest version of https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia/blob/master/requirements.txt has beautifulsoup4, perhaps just need a new upload to PyPi?

Hello guys, I'm trying to get some SNPedia data. The SNPedia API's documentation page says:

So, I started a Google Colab and a Jupyter Notbook on my local machine and I got this error in both cases:

What did I do wrong? What's the problem with the Wiki file?

The indentation was against PEP8, so I ran it through autopep8 so my editor wouldn't spout errors for all the 2space indents. The full command was autopep8 ./ --recursive --in-place --pep8-passes 2000 --verbose

If I develop a new virtualenv and do a pip install wikipedia, it gives:

ImportError: No module named requests

This is due to 'import wikipedia' in the setup.py file. I think this shouldn't be present in setup.py file (since it hasn't finished installing requirements yet). Also, could the requests version be updated to 2.3.0 ?

Whenever I run the line wikipedia.page("New York City") The api returns an error indicating there is no page for 'new york sity'. The error occurs on line 270 of wikipedia.py results, suggestion = search(title, results=1, suggestion=True) where title='new york city' resolves to 'new york sity' for whatever reason

I am looking for a way to get an information from a side panel of wikipedia website, example:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix (the panel on the right)

I was trying using this:

import wikipedia
xx = wikipedia.page("Netlix")
xx.title
print(xx.content)

It does provide the whole page content - besides side panel.

I was trying to avoid BeautifulSoup package, but I am not sure if it's possible. Any ideas?

This is my code:

import wikipedia
wikipedia.summary("theresa may")

but for some reasons, it ran into error, and saying that I am giving "teresa may" as input???

PageError: Page id "teresa may" does not match any pages. Try another id!

What is going on here?

Fixes #279 and related.

There are already at least four proposed fixes to this bug ( #305 #297 #287 #253 ), but none of them quite succeed so here's a fourth attempt. Of course, considering the maintainer hasn't been seen since 2018 I doubt there's going to be any movement on any of them.

Searching for "bass" searches for "band."

>>> import wikipedia as w
>>> w.page("bass")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 276, in page
    return WikipediaPage(title, redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 299, in __init__
    self.__load(redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 367, in __load
    self.__init__(redirects['to'], redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 299, in __init__
    self.__load(redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 393, in __load
    raise DisambiguationError(getattr(self, 'title', page['title']), may_refer_to)
wikipedia.exceptions.DisambiguationError: "Band" may refer to:
Bánd
Band, Iran
Band, Mureș
Band-e Majid Khan
Band (surname)
Musical ensemble
Band (rock and pop)
Concert band
Dansband
Jazz band
Marching band
...

Searching for "band" appears to search for "and".

>>> import wikipedia as w
>>> w.page("band")
C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py:389: GuessedAtParserWarning: No parser was explicitly specified, so I'm using the best available HTML parser for this system ("html.parser"). This usually isn't a problem, but if you run this code on another system, or in a different virtual environment, it may use a different parser and behave differently.

The code that caused this warning is on line 389 of the file C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py. To get rid of this warning, pass the additional argument 'features="html.parser"' to the BeautifulSoup constructor.

  lis = BeautifulSoup(html).find_all('li')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 276, in page
    return WikipediaPage(title, redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 299, in __init__
    self.__load(redirect=redirect, preload=preload)
  File "C:\Users\-\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\wikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 393, in __load
    raise DisambiguationError(getattr(self, 'title', page['title']), may_refer_to)
wikipedia.exceptions.DisambiguationError: "and" may refer to:
Conjunction (grammar)
Logical conjunction
Bitwise AND
short-circuit operator
Ampersand
AND gate
And (John Martyn album)
And (Koda Kumi album)
A N D (Tricot album)
Jonah Matranga
...