Wiki.Net 2.1.0

Wiki.Net

Wiki.Net – An unofficial C# Wikipedia API

Features

Searches Wikipedia (duh!) and returns (per result):

• Title
• Page ID
• Word Count
• Size (bytes?)
• Text Preview
• URL of page
• Time of last edit

Getting Started

Installation

You can install via NuGet using the package manager command:

Install-Package Wiki.Net -Version 2.1.0

You can also download the binaries from the releases.

Example

string searchString = "Computer";
WikiSearchSettings searchSettings = new WikiSearchSettings
	{RequestId = "Request ID", ResultLimit = 5, ResultOffset = 2};

WikiSearchResponse response = WikiSearcher.Search(searchString, searchSettings);

Console.WriteLine($"\nResults found ({searchString}):\n");
foreach (WikiSearchResult result in response.Query.SearchResults)
{
	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

Results found (Computer):

    Information technology (2836 words, 27146 bytes, id 36674345):  Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business...
    At https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=36674345
    Last edited at 24/10/2019 11:53:39 AM

    Computer graphics (computer science) (1632 words, 18720 bytes, id 18567168):    Computer graphics is a sub-field of Computer Science which studies methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content. Although the term...
    At https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=18567168
    Last edited at 17/09/2019 12:21:21 AM

    Computer hardware (2479 words, 22776 bytes, id 21808348):       Computer hardware includes the physical, tangible parts or components of a computer, such as the cabinet, central processing unit, monitor, keyboard,...
    At https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=21808348
    Last edited at 16/10/2019 4:00:29 PM

    *More results*

Authors

EternalClickbait - Initial work - EternalClickbait

Creepysin - Current Maintainer / Initial Docs Writer - Creepysin

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license – see the LICENSE.md file for details.