Wiki.Net 1.0.0

Wiki.Net

Wiki.Net – An unofficial C# Wikipedia API

Features

Searches Wikipedia (duh!) and returns:

• Page ID
• Titles
• Word Count
• Size (bytes?)
• Text Preview
• URL of page

Getting Started

Installation

You can install via NuGet using the package manager command:

Install-Package Wiki.Net -Version 1.0.0

You can also download the binaries from the releases.

Example

string searchString = “Computer”;

WikiSearchResponse response = WikiSearcher.Search(searchString);

Console.WriteLine($"\nResults found ({searchString}):\n");
for (int i = 0; i < response.SearchResults.Length; i++)
{
	WikiSearchResult result = response.SearchResults[i];
	Console.WriteLine($"\t{result.Title} ({result.WordCount} words, {result.Size} bytes, id {result.PageId}):\t{result.Preview}...\n\tAt {result.Url}\n\tLast edited at {result.LastEdited}\n");
}

Console.ReadLine();

Output

Computer (12154 words)
A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming. Modern...
https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=7878457

Computer science (7267 words)
Computer science (sometimes called computation science or computing science, but not to be confused with computational science or software engineering)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=5323

*More results*

Authors

EternalClickbait - Initial work - EternalClickbait

License

This project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 – see the LICENSE file for details.