def lookupWikipedia(request):
def excludeWikiItem(item):
excludeDescriptionBeginnings = ['This is a redirect from a title with another method of capitalisation.']
for exclusion in excludeDescriptionBeginnings:
if item['description'].startswith(exclusion):
return True
return False
if request.method == "GET" and 'q' in request.GET and 'l' in request.GET:
query = request.GET['q']
language = request.GET['l']
if Query.hasLanguage(language):
prefix = "https://%s.wikipedia.org" % language
wikiprefix = "%s/wiki/" % prefix
data = requests.get("%s/w/api.php" % prefix, params={
'action': 'opensearch',
'format': 'json',
'namespace': 0,
'limit': 10,
'search': query
})
if data:
obj = data.json()
if obj:
items = []
term = obj[0]
titles = obj[1]
descriptions = obj[2]
links = obj[3]
count = min(len(titles), len(descriptions), len(links))
print links
for i in range(0, count-1):
item = {'title':titles[i],
'description':descriptions[i],
'links':links[i]}
if links[i].startswith(wikiprefix):
item['key'] = links[i][len(wikiprefix):]
if not excludeWikiItem(item):
items.append(item)
return HttpResponse(JSONSerializer().serialize(items))
