wikipedia4j

This is a Java client library that you can use to search and retrieve documents from Wikipedia . It can be used in Android or any Java and Kotlin Project.

Add Dependency

Gradle

To use library in your gradle project follow the steps below:

1. Add this in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

   allprojects {
       repositories {
           ...
           maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
       }
   }

2. Add the dependency

   dependencies {
       def WIKIPEDIA4J_VERSION = "..."
       implementation "com.github.llmjava:wikipedia4j:$WIKIPEDIA4J_VERSION"
   }

Maven

To use the library in your Maven project, follow the steps below:

1. Add the JitPack repository to your build file:

   <repositories>
       <repository>
           <id>jitpack.io</id>
           <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
       </repository>
   </repositories>

2. Add the dependency

   <dependency>
       <groupId>com.github.llmjava</groupId>
       <artifactId>wikipedia4j</artifactId>
       <version>${WIKIPEDIA4J_VERSION}</version>
   </dependency>

Usage

Example code to use the Wikipedia API:

class App {

   public static void main(String[] args) {
        Wikipedia wiki = new Wikipedia();
        List<Document> results = wiki.search("apple");
        for(Document doc: results) {
            System.out.println(doc);
        }
   }
}

Build Project

Clone the repository and import as Maven project in IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse

Before building the project, make sure you have the following things installed.

• Maven
• Java 8

To install the API client library to your local Maven repository, simply execute:

mvn install

To build the library using Gradle, execute the following command

./gradlew build

Refer to the official documentation for more information.