Length of Returns (.search)

Question

Is there a way to return the length of the results from the following line?

import wikipedia
query = input("What do you want to lookup? ")
wikipedia.search(query)

Thanks!

I know that .search will return the first ten results, and that you can specify more or less, but I'd like to be able to tell how many results there are. I couldn't find this in this documentation, although I may not be looking in the right place. Any help is appreciated! https://wikipedia.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code.html#api

Answer 1

It seems that the wikipedia package doesn't provide an API for the total number of hits. MediaWiki itself, however, does have such an option: srinfo=totalhits.

Knowing this, getting the information from Wikipedia should be trivial (the documentation page linked above also has some code examples, Python included):

import requests

response = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php', params = {
  'action': 'query',
  'format': 'json',
  'list': 'search',
  'srsearch': 'Foobar',
  'srinfo': 'totalhits'
}).json()

total_hits = response['query']['searchinfo']['totalhits']  # 131