added example code that uses the urls

[wikipedia-api-cdsw] / wikipedia-raw2.py

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+import time
+import simplejson as json
+from urllib2 import urlopen
+
+url_base = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=%s&rvlimit=100&rvprop=timestamp|user&format=json'
+
+pages = ["Benjamin_Mako_Hill", "Python", "Data_science"]
+
+for page_title in pages:
+    
+    wp_call = urlopen(url_base % page_title)
+    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"]
+
+
+    time.sleep(3)