Article Creation API

Given a source and target wiki, the API provides source articles missing in the target.

• URL
  • http://recommend.wmflabs.org/api
    
• URL Params
  • Required:
    • s=[string] source wiki project language code (e.g. en)
    • t=[string] target wiki project language code (e.g. fr)
  • Optional:
    • n=[int] number of recommendations to fetch (default 10)
    • article=[string] seed article for personalized recommendations. Can be a list of seeds separated by |
    • pageviews=[true|false] whether to include pageview counts in the response (default true)
    • search=[wiki|google|morelike] which search algorithm to use (default morelike)

• Sample Call:

  http://recommend.wmflabs.org/api?s=en&t=fr&n=3&article=Apple

  {
    "articles": [
        {
            "pageviews": 3221,
            "title": "Mutsu_(apple)",
            "wikidata_id": "Q2613423"
        },
        {
            "pageviews": 127,
            "title": "Liveland_Raspberry_apple",
            "wikidata_id": "Q19597760"
        },
        {
            "pageviews": 91,
            "title": "Eva_(apple)",
            "wikidata_id": "Q5414989"
        }
    ]
  }
  

• Running the API

  There is a wsgi file provided at recommendation/data/recommendation.wsgi. This can be run using a tool like uwsgi as follows:

  # Inside a virtualenv and in the root directory of the repo
  pip install -e .
  pip install uwsgi
  uwsgi --http :5000 --wsgi-file recommendation/data/recommendation.wsgi --venv my-venv
  

  Then navigate here to see the UI:

  http://localhost:5000/
  

  To check out the API, go to:

  http://localhost:5000/api?s=en&t=fr&n=3&article=Apple
  

  You should get a similar response to the Sample Call above