goldsmith/Wikipedia
A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4761
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 843
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3004 stars · 526 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A Python library that wraps the MediaWiki API to make it easy to search Wikipedia and retrieve article summaries, page content, links, and images. It is designed for simplicity rather than heavy automated use.
Use cases
- fetch wikipedia article summaries in python
- search wikipedia from a script
- get full text and links of a wikipedia page
- scrape wikipedia data for nlp projects
- build a quick knowledge lookup tool
- retrieve wikipedia content in another language
When to choose
- you want a dead-simple pythonic interface to Wikipedia data
- you need quick summaries or page content for prototypes or research
- you want multilingual access via a one-line language switch
When to avoid
- you need rate limiting or high-volume automated scraping
- you require the full MediaWiki API surface or bot features
- you need guaranteed maintenance - the project sees only occasional updates
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
http-client parser search-engine apis developer-tools python cross-platform wikipedia mediawiki-api api-wrapper scraping natural-language-processing
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2397826c7c5c
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/wikipedia/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · b45f2031364f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| goldsmith/Wikipedia | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="goldsmith/Wikipedia")
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