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Reputation: 1961

wikitools parsing error

I'm using wikitools package to parse the wikipedia. I just copy this example from documentation. But its not working. When I run this code. I get following error. Invalid JSON,trying requesting again. Can you please help me ? thanks

from wikitools import wiki
from wikitools import api
# create a Wiki object
site = wiki.Wiki("http://my.wikisite.org/w/api.php") 
# define the params for the query
params = {'action':'query', 'titles':'Papori'}
# create the request object
request = api.APIRequest(site, params)
# query the API
result = request.query()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 542

Answers (1)

Cito
Cito

Reputation: 5603

The "http://my.wikisite.org/w/api.php" is only an example, there is no MediaWiki under that domain. Try with "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php" which searches in the English Wikipedia.

Upvotes: 3

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