README.md

wikstraktor

A python tool to query the wiktionary and extract structured lexical data.

Dependencies

This project does depend on python packages.

• pywikibot allows to use the mediawiki API
  • documentation
  • manual
  • configuration for the wiktionary
• wikitextparser can parse mediawiki pages and extract sections, templates and links
  • documentation
• importlib : to import parser modules

Installation

(maybe to be replaced by an automation of some sort)

• pip install pywikibot
• pip install wikitextparser
• pip install importlib

Wikstraktor Server

If you want wikstraktor as a server, you need to install flask, and best practice is to do so in a virtual environment.

The following commands are extracted from the aforementionned documentation, it is probably more secure to click on the link and follow the modules documentation :

python3 -m venv wikstraktorenv #create wikstraktorenv environment
. wikstraktorenv/bin/activate #activate environment
pip install Flask

Use

Wikstraktor

from wikstraktor import Wikstraktor
f = Wikstraktor.get_instance('fr', 'en') #create a wikstraktor,
    # first parameter is the language of the wiki
    # second parameter is the language of the word sought for
f.fetch("blue") #fetch an article
str(f) #convert content to json

Wikstraktor Server

The server runs by default on port 5000, you can change that in the wikstraktor_server_config.py file.

./wikstraktor_server.py

Then there is a very simple API :

GET server_url/search/<word> #Searches the word in the default wiktionary
GET server_url/search/<wiktlang>/<wordlang>/<word> #Searches the word In wordlang in the wiktlang wiktionary

Both API calls return a json object

Licence

TODO but will be open source