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barrust / mediawiki

MediaWiki API wrapper in python http://pymediawiki.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Installing Extensions #109

Closed AnotherTwinkle closed 3 years ago

AnotherTwinkle commented 3 years ago

How exactly do I install the needed "extensions" for the code to work? I am trying to get the content of a fandom page and it's throwing me an error called "Unable to extract page content, The TextExtracts extension must be installed!"

AnotherTwinkle commented 3 years ago

Okay, I was being dumb and didnt realize these "extensions" are not userside. Is there any way to extract text from a page not having the TextExtracts extension?

barrust commented 3 years ago

Yes, you are correct that the extensions mentioned in the documentation are on the mediawiki side and not something that the user can add. Therefore, there are a few options:

1) Make sure the site is a mediawiki site and not a generic "wiki"; it isn't common, in my experience, that a mediawiki site does not have the TextExtracts extension installed 2) Reach out to the owners of the site and see if they would install the extension (worth a shot!) 3) Or you can use the wiki markup language; you would have to do something like this:

from mediawiki import MediaWiki

wiki = MediaWiki(url="the-media-wiki-api-url")
page = wiki.page("My Page")
page.wikitext

It has formatting code (similar in nature to the markdown format) but it should have all the text.

Hope this is helpful. If you need more information I would likely need examples of the issue to be able to help more. If this resolves your issue, go ahead and close this ticket.

Thanks!