Search Wikipedia from the terminal project

projects/wikipedia_search/README.md

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+# Terminal Wikipedia
+<!--Remove the below lines and add yours -->
+Search the terminal for Wikipedia short descriptions of the topics you are interested in.
+
+### Prerequisites
+<!--Remove the below lines and add yours -->
+Modules required to be able to use the script 
+
+````
+pip install colorama
+pip install requests
+pip install beautifulsoup4
+````
+
+### How to run the script
+<!--Remove the below lines and add yours -->
+Steps on how to run the script along with suitable examples.
+````
+python wiki.py [topic]
+````
+or just execute the script and you'll be prompted to enter the topic.
+
+### Author
+#
+<!--Remove the below lines and add yours -->
+* Github - https://github.com/TheMambaDev <br>
+* Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheMambaDev

projects/wikipedia_search/wiki.py

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+import sys
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from numpy import full
+import requests
+from colorama import Fore
+
+keyword = sys.argv[1:]
+
+if keyword == []:
+    keyword = input("Please enter a keyword: ")
+else:
+    keyword = "_".join(keyword)
+
+print("Searching for:", keyword + "\n")
+
+req = requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/" + keyword)
+
+wiki = BeautifulSoup(req.text, "html.parser").find_all("p")
+link = BeautifulSoup(req.text, "html.parser").find("a")["href"]
+full_text = []
+
+# get the first 10 paragraphs
+for i, p in enumerate(wiki):
+    if i == 10:
+        break
+
+    if p.text == "":
+        continue
+
+    full_text.append(p.text + "\n")
+
+# if there is no text, alert the user about insufficient data
+if len(full_text) < 2:
+    print(Fore.YELLOW + "No info found for this keyword.\n")
+    exit()
+
+# highlight the first paragraph
+full_text[0] = Fore.GREEN + full_text[0] + Fore.RESET
+
+# add link to the end of the text
+full_text[-1] = (
+    "for more information please visit: "
+    + Fore.CYAN
+    + "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"
+    + link[2:]
+    + Fore.RESET
+)
+
+print("\n".join(full_text))
+
+