Class: Askwiki

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/askwiki.rb

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(lang = 'en') ⇒ Askwiki

Returns a new instance of Askwiki.



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# File 'lib/askwiki.rb', line 8

def initialize( lang='en' )
	@language = lang
end

Class Method Details

.ask(query, lang = 'en') ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/askwiki.rb', line 26

def self.ask( query, lang='en' )
  ask_obj = Askwiki.new lang  
  ask_obj.ask query 
end

Instance Method Details

#ask(query) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/askwiki.rb', line 12

def ask query
	query_encoded = URI::encode(query)
	request_url = "http://#{@language}.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=#{query_encoded}&format=json&prop=text&section=0&redirects"
  text = ''
	open(request_url) do |file|
	  text = JSON.parse(file.read())['parse']['text'].first[1]
	    .gsub(/<\/?[^>]+>/, '') # strip tags
	    .gsub(/[[:space:]]+/, ' ') # strip whitespace
	    .gsub(/&#[0-9]+;/,'') # strip encoded
	    .gsub(/\[[0-9]+\]/,'') # strip referencing
  end
  text
end