Technical development

pulling categories from mediawiki(SNPedia)

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

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1. !/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']

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