Wikipedia search

Search English Wikipedia for matching pages.

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Wikipedia search as the Patch draws it, at default values: inlets on the left, outlets on the right.

Wikipedia search looks up pages on English Wikipedia by title and content. It needs no key.

What it does#

The node is generated from the wikipedia addon manifest. It requests GET https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/search/page?q=…&limit=… and runs it like a Web request. response is JSON with a pages list; each page has id, key, title, excerpt, description and, when there is one, a thumbnail.

The search terms come from the q port when cabled, otherwise from the node's q field. With trigger cabled each trigger searches; otherwise a change on a cabled port does; with no cable at all it searches once at start.

A Toy using this node requires the network and the wikipedia addon, enabled in Settings → Addons. Text is CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to use it#

Use it to find articles, then feed a page's key to Wikipedia summary or step through the results with List.

Ports#

Port	Direction	Signal	Lanes
`trigger`	Input	Data (trigger)	1
`q`	Input	Data (string)	1
`limit`	Input	Data (integer)	1
`response`	Output	Data (json)	1
`status`	Output	Data (integer)	1
`error`	Output	Data (string)	1
`done`	Output	Data (trigger)	1

Parameters#

Parameter	Label	Range	Default	Unit	Scale	Notes
`limit`	Limit	1 to 100	10		linear	Most pages returned, 1 to 100. Used while the port has no cable.

q: text.

Limit (`limit`)#

The most pages returned, 1 to 100 (10 by default).

Query#

The q text field holds the search terms (up to 300 characters), used while the q port has no cable.

Tips#

excerpt contains HTML highlight markup; use title or description for plain text.
Pick the first title with Convert and path /pages/0/title.

Help patches

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1. Search for instruments

beginner Teaches: limit

Wikipedia search returns matching pages; Convert picks the first title.

Patch: Wikipedia search response output connected to Convert value input. Convert value output connected to Console log value input.

Connections as text

Wikipedia search response output connected to Convert value input
Convert value output connected to Console log value input

Limit caps the pages returned; each has id, key, title, excerpt and description.

Frame preview (static). Controls show their default values.

Open in TuneToys

Wikipedia summary Lead extract of an English Wikipedia article.
Convert Convert a value to another datatype, optionally picking a field or formatting a string; failures go to error.
List List operations on data values: get, push, insert, remove, slice, sort, unique, flatten, join, range, sum, minimum, maximum, mean, shuffle and more.