Scripts/wikipedia

#!/usr/bin/python3
import requests
import sys
import textwrap

def connection_error():
    print("Could not contact wikipedia servers.")
    sys.exit(1)

def page_search(string):
    params = {
            'q' : string,
            'limit' : 1
            }
    try:
        return requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/search/page', params).json()['pages']
    except ConnectionError:
        connection_error()

def get_page_with_summary(title):
    try:
        return requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/' + title).json()
    except ConnectionError:
        connection_error()

def get_page_links(title):
    params = {
            'action' : 'query',
            'titles' : title,
            'prop' : 'links',
            'format' : 'json'
            }
    try:
        return list(requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php', params).json()['query']['pages'].values())[0]['links']
    except ConnectionError:
        connection_error()

def main():
    if not sys.argv[1:]:
        print("Usage: wikipedia <list of search terms>")
        sys.exit(1)
    else:
        result = page_search(' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))
        if result:
            page = get_page_with_summary(result[0]['title'])
            if page['type'] == 'disambiguation':
                print('Ambiguous result, please clarify:\n    ' + '\n    '.join([link['title'] for link in get_page_links(page['title'])]))
            else:
                print(page['title'] + ':\n\n' + textwrap.fill(page['extract'], width=80))
        else:
            print('No result found.')
            sys.exit(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()