# goldsmith/Wikipedia

A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API

Repository: https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wikipedia
Homepage: https://wikipedia.readthedocs.org/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-05-12T15:26:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4761, "days_push": 843, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3004, forks 526 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:37.560483+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, parser, search-engine
- domain: apis, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: wikipedia, mediawiki-api, api-wrapper, scraping, natural-language-processing

## Member repositories
- goldsmith/Wikipedia (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:37.560483+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:30:24.389856+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:37.560483+00:00, sha 2397826c7c5c)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/wikipedia/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:46:14.189122+00:00, sha b45f2031364f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.