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*Feb 15th (with Fako & Natasha). From the terminal (local host), this script pulls categories (default on 10) from SNPedia.
*Feb 15th (with Fako & Natasha). From the terminal (local host), this script pulls categories (default on 10) from SNPedia.


  <source lang="python">
<source lang="python">
#!/usr/bin/python
#!/usr/bin/python


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for page in f['query']['pages'].itervalues():
for page in f['query']['pages'].itervalues():
         print page['title']
         print page['title']
 
</source>
  <source lang="python">

Revision as of 22:28, 15 February 2011

pulling categories from mediawiki(SNPedia)

  • Feb 15th (with Fako & Natasha). From the terminal (local host), this script pulls categories (default on 10) from SNPedia.
#!/usr/bin/python

import json, urllib2

search = u'Rs1001179' # quotes are string.
url = u'http://www.snpedia.com/api.php?action=query&format=json&redirects=true&generator=categories&titles=' + search
request = urllib2.Request(url)  
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
result = response.read() 

f = json.loads(result)
print type(f)
g = json.dumps(f) # dump makes back into a string
print type(g)

for page in f['query']['pages'].itervalues():
        print page['title']