Removed simplejson, updated mwclient, replaced urllib2 with requests

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

diff --git a/wikipedia-raw2.py b/wikipedia-raw2.py
index c7eca1be4f72a90bd8a03bdc11b80fa22db2932d..d84b378a770f5606a4318583c501d8306fc2f28c 100644 (file)
--- a/wikipedia-raw2.py
+++ b/wikipedia-raw2.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import time
-import simplejson as json
-from urllib2 import urlopen
+import json
+import requests
 
 url_base = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=%s&rvlimit=100&rvprop=timestamp|user&format=json'
 
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ 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())
+    wp_call = requests.get(url_base % page_title)
+    response = json.loads(wp_call.content)
 
     for page_id in response["query"]["pages"].keys():
         page_title = response["query"]["pages"][page_id]["title"]