CHANGES.rst

Changelog

0.5.1

• Adds tox for testing different Python versions

0.5.0

• Allows modifying API call parameters
• Fixes Issue 16 - hidden categories
• Fixes Issue 21 - summary extraction

0.4.5

• Handles missing sections correctly
• Fixes Issue 20

0.4.4

• Uses HTTPS directly instead of HTTP to avoid redirect

0.4.3

• Correctly extracts text from pages without sections
• Adds support for quoted page titles

api = wikipediaapi.Wikipedia(
    language='hi',
)
python = api.article(
    title='%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%A8',
    unquote=True,
)
print(python.summary)

0.4.2

• Adds support for Python 3.4 by not using f-strings

0.4.1

• Uses code style enforced by flake8
• Increased code coverage

0.4.0

• Uses type annotations => minimal requirement is now Python 3.5
• Adds possibility to use more parameters for request. For example:

api = wikipediaapi.Wikipedia(
    language='en',
    proxies={'http': 'http://localhost:1234'}
)

• Extends documentation

0.3.4

• Adds support for property Categorymembers
• Adds property text for retrieving complete text of the page

0.3.3

• Added support for request timeout
• Add header: Accept-Encoding: gzip

0.3.2

• Added support for property Categories

0.3.1

• Removing WikipediaLangLink
• Page keeps track of its own language, so it's easier to jump between different translations of the same page

0.3.0

• Rename directory from wikipedia to wikipediaapi to avoid collisions

0.2.4

• Handle redirects properly

0.2.3

• Usage method page instead of article in Wikipedia

0.2.2

• Added support for property Links

0.2.1

• Added support for property Langlinks

0.2.0

• Use properties instead of functions
• Added support for property Info

0.1.6

• Support for extracting texts with HTML markdown
• Added initial version of unit tests

0.1.4

• It's possible to extract summary and sections of the page
• Added support for property Extracts