I’m using the Wikipedia API wrapper for Python, and for some queries, it’s not searching the term I specified. For example, when I execute the function below:
import Wikipedia
wikipedia.summary('machine learning')
I get the error
PageError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[28], line 1
----> 1 wikipedia.summary('machine learning')
File /data/123/anaconda3/envs/comet/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wikipedia/util.py:28, in cache.__call__(self, *args, **kwargs)
26 ret = self._cache[key]
27 else:
---> 28 ret = self._cache[key] = self.fn(*args, **kwargs)
30 return ret
File /data/123/anaconda3/envs/comet/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py:231, in summary(title, sentences, chars, auto_suggest, redirect)
216 '''
217 Plain text summary of the page.
218
(...)
226 * redirect - allow redirection without raising RedirectError
227 '''
229 # use auto_suggest and redirect to get the correct article
230 # also, use page's error checking to raise DisambiguationError if necessary
--> 231 page_info = page(title, auto_suggest=auto_suggest, redirect=redirect)
232 title = page_info.title
233 pageid = page_info.pageid
File /data/123/anaconda3/envs/comet/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py:276, in page(title, pageid, auto_suggest, redirect, preload)
...
--> 345 raise PageError(self.title)
346 else:
347 raise PageError(pageid=self.pageid)
PageError: Page id "machine ;earning" does not match any pages. Try another id!
Does anyone know why this happens?
>Solution :
The module seems to be broken: https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia/issues/279, namely this line in the source code:
title = suggestion or results[0]
It prioritises suggestions over actual result, so it may fail depending on whatever suggestion contains.
Turn of autosuggestions with auto_suggest = False parameter to prevent this.
import wikipedia
print(wikipedia.summary('machine learning', auto_suggest = False))