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Ganesh Patil
Ganesh Patil

Reputation: 103

Wikipedia summary function gives PageError. Not fetching data from wikipedia

The folowing code gives me PageError

print(wikipedia.summary("Bill Gates", sentences=2))

PageError: Page id "bill gets" does not match any pages. Try another id!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 388

Answers (2)

Valentin Grégoire
Valentin Grégoire

Reputation: 1150

That is because the summary function expects an id of a page, not just a random name. I would assume that the page id is the same as the part behind /wiki/ in the link if you go to the Wikipedia page. In Bill Gate's case, the url is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates. This probably means that the id of this page is Bill_Gates.

So this probably works:

print(wikipedia.summary("Bill_Gates", sentences=2))

Upvotes: 2

JoshG
JoshG

Reputation: 6735

If you surround the query in single quotes, it should use the literal string:

from mediawiki import MediaWiki
wikipedia = MediaWiki()
print(wikipedia.summary("'Bill Gates'", sentences=2))

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

Upvotes: 2

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