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random wikipedia reader

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to open and read a random wikipedia article

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  1. import urllib2
  2. import webbrowser
  3. import simplejson as json
  4.  
  5. class randomWikiArticle():
  6.     curidList = []
  7.  
  8.     def wikiAPI(self):
  9.         random = urllib2.urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=random&rnnamespace=0&rnlimit=10&format=json").read()
  10.         print "Select the Topic:\n"
  11.         return random
  12.  
  13.     def parseValue(self, parseData):
  14.         global curidList
  15.         curidList = []
  16.         parsedData = json.loads(parseData)
  17.         for key,value in parsedData['query'].iteritems():
  18.             for i in range(0, 10):
  19.                 for k,v in value[i].iteritems():
  20.                     if (k == 'id'):
  21.                         curidList.append(v) 
  22.                     if (k == 'title'):
  23.                         print i+1, v.encode('utf-8')
  24.  
  25.     def openURL(self):
  26.         var = input('\n')
  27.         webbrowser.open_new("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid="+str(curidList[var]))
  28.  
  29.     def init(self):
  30.         random = randomWikiArticle().wikiAPI()
  31.         randomWikiArticle().parseValue(random)
  32.         randomWikiArticle().openURL()
  33.  
  34. if __name__ == '__main__':
  35.     randomWikiArticle().init()

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