added example code that uses the urls

[wikipedia-api-cdsw] / wikipedia-raw1.py

diff --git a/wikipedia-raw1.py b/wikipedia-raw1.py
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+import simplejson as json
+from urllib2 import urlopen
+
+wp_call = urlopen('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main_Page&rvlimit=100&rvprop=timestamp|user&format=json')
+
+response = json.loads(wp_call.read())
+
+for page_id in response["query"]["pages"].keys():
+    page_title = response["query"]["pages"][page_id]["title"]
+    revisions = response["query"]["pages"][page_id]["revisions"]
+
+    for rev in revisions:
+        print page_title + "\t" + rev["user"] + "\t" + rev["timestamp"]
+