Wiki.Net

Wiki.Net – An unofficial .NET Wikipedia search API wrapper.

Features

Searches Wikipedia (duh!) in multiple defined languages and returns (per result):

• Title
• Page ID
• Word Count
• Size (bytes?)
• Text Preview
• URL of page
• Time of last edit

Getting Started

Installation

You can install via NuGet by adding Wiki.Net to your project's packages:

<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Wiki.Net" Version="4.2.0"/>
</ItemGroup>

Example

string searchString = "Computer";
WikiSearcher searcher = new();
WikiSearchSettings searchSettings = new() {RequestId = "Request ID", ResultLimit = 5, ResultOffset = 2, Language = "en"};

WikiSearchResponse response = searcher.Search(searchString, searchSettings);

Console.WriteLine($"\nResults found ({searchString}):\n");
foreach (WikiSearchResult result in response.Query.SearchResults)
{
	Console.WriteLine(
                $"\t{result.Title} ({result.WordCount} words, {result.Size} bytes, id {result.PageId}):\t{result.Preview}...\n\tAt {result.Url.AbsoluteUri} and {result.ConstantUrl.AbsoluteUri}\n\tLast edited at {result.LastEdited}\n");
}

Console.ReadLine();

Output

Results found (Computer):

        Computer engineering (2533 words, 28125 bytes, id 50408):       Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required...
        At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer engineering and https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=50408
        Last edited at 27/6/2022 3:37:42 pm

        Computer science (6930 words, 72988 bytes, id 5323):    Fundamental areas of computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines...
        At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer science and https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=5323
        Last edited at 3/7/2022 3:18:56 am

        Computer animation (4609 words, 40388 bytes, id 6777):  Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both...
        At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer animation and https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=6777
        Last edited at 16/6/2022 4:26:51 pm

        *More results*

Authors

Ararem (Formally EternalClickbait) - Initial work - (Deleted Profile)

Voltstro - Current Maintainer / Initial Docs Writer - Voltstro

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license – see the LICENSE.md file for details.