Create obscurefact.py

obscurefact.py

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+#/usr/bin/python
+# GPL'd; see LICENSE.
+# Copyright 2013 Sumana Harihareswara
+# For a Wikipedia article: find the most obscure fact.
+
+import requests
+import random
+
+def choosephrase():
+    a = raw_input("What topic do you want to know about? ")
+    return a
+
+def APIcall(topic):
+    headers =  {'User-Agent': 'obscure-fact project (https://github.com/brainwane/), using Python requests library'}
+    URI = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&format=json&explaintext=&titles=%s&redirects=" % topic
+    r = requests.get(URI, headers=headers)
+    return r.json()
+
+def findsentence(response):
+    for elem in response["query"]["pages"]:
+        pagetext = response["query"]["pages"][elem]["extract"]
+    sectionlist = pagetext.split("==\n==")
+    section = random.choice(sectionlist)
+    sentencelist = section.split(". ")
+    sentence = random.choice(sentencelist)
+    return sentence
+
+def run():
+    # take a string
+    # Do the API call
+    # Find a sentence in the longest section
+    # spit out sentence
+    topic = choosephrase()
+    page = APIcall(topic)
+    result = findsentence(page)
+    print(result)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    run()