Wikipedia Data Extraction API

FastAPI-based service for extracting structured data (tables, infoboxes, citations, etc.) from Wikipedia articles.

Setup

1. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the API Server

Start the FastAPI server:

uvicorn Application:application --reload --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

The API will be available at:

• API: http://localhost:8000
• Interactive API docs: http://localhost:8000/docs
• Alternative docs: http://localhost:8000/redoc

Using the Client Script

Run the client script to interact with the API:

python client.py

The client script includes:

• Example requests for extracting tables from Wikipedia articles
• Interactive mode for testing different articles and languages

API Endpoints

POST /extract-tables

Extract all tables from a Wikipedia article.

Request Body:

{
  "page_title": "Python (programming language)",
  "language": "english"
}

Response:

{
  "article_title": "Python (programming language)",
  "language": "english",
  "number_of_tables": 2,
  "tables": [
    {
      "table_id": "table_1",
      "headers": ["Column1", "Column2"],
      "rows": [["Value1", "Value2"]],
      "caption": "Table caption"
    }
  ],
  "table_details": {
    "1": "5 rows and 3 columns",
    "2": "10 rows and 4 columns"
  }
}

POST /info-box

Extract infobox from Wikipedia article (JSON input).

POST /tables

Parse tables from article JSON (legacy endpoint).

POST /citation

Extract citations from Wikipedia article.

POST /head

Extract headers from Wikipedia article.

Example Usage

Using Python requests:

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "http://localhost:8000/extract-tables",
    json={
        "page_title": "Python (programming language)",
        "language": "english"
    }
)
print(response.json())

Using curl:

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/extract-tables" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"page_title": "Python (programming language)", "language": "english"}'

Supported Languages

• english (en)
• spanish (es)
• german (de)
• dutch (nl)
• Or any ISO 639-1 two-letter language code