Reference

modern_python_template.console

Command-line Interface for project.

modern_python_template.wikipedia

Client for the wikipedia REST API, version 1.

See API documentation.

class modern_python_template.wikipedia.Page(title, extract)

Page Resource.

title

The title of the wikipedia page.

Type

str

extract

A plain text summary.

Type

str

modern_python_template.wikipedia.random_page(language='en')

Return a random page.

Performs a GET request to the /page/random/summary endpoint.

Parameters

language (str) – The Wikipedia language edition. By default, the English Wikipedia is used (“en”).

Return type

Page

Returns

A page resource.

Raises

ClickException – The HTTP request failed or the HTTP response contained an invalid body.

Example

>>> from hypermodern_python import wikipedia
>>> page = wikipedia.random_page(language="en")
>>> bool(page.title)
True