Modern Wikipedia API Client

A async Wikipedia API client with advanced features for professional use.

Features

• Async/Await Support: Built with aiohttp for high-performance async operations
• Automatic Rate Limiting: Configurable rate limiting with smart backoff
• Retry Logic: Exponential backoff with jitter for robust error handling
• Caching: Time-based caching with TTL support
• Multi-language Support: Easy language switching
• Batch Operations: Optimized batch requests for multiple pages
• Type Safety: Full type annotations with Pydantic models
• Error Handling: Comprehensive error hierarchy
• Production Ready: Optimal defaults for production use

Quick Start

Installation

pip install wikipedia-async

import asyncio
from wikipedia_async import WikipediaClient

async def main():
    # Initialize client with optimal defaults
    client = WikipediaClient()

    # Search for articles
    res = await client.search("Python programming")
    results = res.results
    print(f"Found {len(results)} search results:")

    # Get page content
    page = await client.get_page("Python (programming language)") # url or title
    print(f"Title: {page.title}")
    print(f"Summary: {page.summary[:200]}...")

    # Sections (table supported)
    print("Sections:")
    for section in page.sections:
        print(section.to_string(markdown=True))

    # if tables don't show set get_page(include_tables=True) to explicitly get tables (which is slower)

    # Batch operations
    res = await client.get_pages_batch(["Python", "JavaScript", "Rust"]) # list of titles or urls
    for p in res.successful:
        print(f"- {p.title} ({p.url})")
    for err in res.failed:
        print(err)

    await client.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Configuration

from wikipedia_async import WikipediaClient, ClientConfig

config = ClientConfig(
    language="en",
    rate_limit_calls=10,
    rate_limit_period=1.0,
    max_retries=3,
    cache_ttl=300,  # 5 minutes
    timeout=30.0,
    max_concurrent_requests=10
)

client = WikipediaClient(config=config)

See Docs Here

Note: The documentation is outdated

See Examples Here