Wikipedia Retriever

This project uses FastAPI to fetch the first paragraph of Wikipedia articles based on a given article name.

Features

• Fetches the first paragraph of any Wikipedia article
• Uses FastAPI for building the web server
• Asynchronous HTTP requests using httpx
• Data validation using Pydantic

Requirements

• FastAPI for the web framework
• httpx for asynchronous HTTP requests
• Pydantic for data validation
• Poetry for dependency management

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/wikipedia-retriever.git
   cd wikipedia-retriever

2. Install Poetry if you haven't already:

   curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

3. Install the dependencies:

   poetry install

Usage

1. Activate the virtual environment:

   poetry shell

2. Run the FastAPI server:

   poetry run uvicorn main:app --reload

3. Test the FastAPI server:

   • Open your web browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/article/any-article-name
   • Or use curl:

     curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/article/any-article-name

Project Structure

├── README.md                # Project README file
├── pyproject.toml           # Poetry configuration file
├── poetry.lock              # Poetry lock file
├── .gitignore               # Git ignore file
├── main.py                  # FastAPI server script
├── client.py                # Script to fetch and print Wikipedia articles

How to Contribute

• Fork the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/wikipedia-retriever.git
cd wikipedia-retriever

• Create your feature branch:

git checkout -b feature/awesome_feature

• Commit your changes:

git commit -m 'Add feature'

• Push to branch:

git push origin feature/awesome_feature

• Open a pull request: Go to the forked repository on GitHub and click on the "New Pull Request" button!

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