dartpedia 1.0.2

API Wrapper for the MediaWiki API. Used to gather information from any Wikipedia Page.

An API Wrapper for the MediaWiki API

Created by Benjamin Whitehead

This is an early implementation of the MediaWiki API in Dart. Note, there are still some issues with this API that will be worked on in the coming months. Some of these issues include: unclean data and over use of dynamic types.

Getting Started

To get started, simply add dartpedia to pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  dartpedia: ^1.0.1

Using

To use dartpedia, first start by importing the package.

import 'package:dartpedia/dartpedia.dart' as wiki;

Next, create a new WikipediaPage object with the wiki.page(topic) function.

var wikipediaPage = await wiki.page('Dart (programming language)');

Use the .summary() function to print a summary of the page.

print(wikipediaPage.summary());

To get the individual components of a page, use the following functions

var url = wikipediaPage.url;
var title = wikipediaPage.title;
var links = wikipediaPage.links;
var content = wikipediaPage.content;

Examples

Get all unique words in a Wikipedia page:

import 'package:dartpedia/dartpedia.dart' as wiki;
main() async {
  var words = [];
  try {
    var page = await wiki.page('New York City');
    var pageContents = ((page.content).split(' '));
    pageContents.forEach((e) {
      if (!words.contains(e)) {
        words.add(e);
      }
    });
  } catch (exception) {
    print(exception);
  }
  print(words);
}

More examples can be found in the Examples folder

Future Plans:

1. Rewrite WikipediaAPI class, get rid of all dynamics for more type safety (hopefully).
   1. Also continue to clean up data given by API
2. Implement Topic Search:
   • Search for a title or text.
   • Search for wiki pages near a location.
   • Prefix Search Functionality