wikitree api with python

Question

Can anyone help with using the wikitree api with python?

Comments

What would you like to know? Do you already have code? You may PM me if you like.

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I am trying to bring wt_apps up to date

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Sorry, I am not sure I understand. wt_apps is the tag on G2G, right?

Or have you already written an app? If you can share the code bit you already have it is easier to help.

Chase's answer is mostly all you need (you might have to import json as well probably). I use post with a payload, but it all depends on how you want to approach it.

Answer 1

I played around with it for a bit. Here's sample code for using the getAncestors API function to get 2 generations of ancestors for Ashley-1966. Note that the end of the url is cut off. The full url is: ("https://api.wikitree.com/api.php?action=getAncestors&key=Ashley-1966&depth=2"). Just vary the action, key and fields (eg depth) per the API documentation and examples, depending on what you want to do.

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.wikitree.com/api.php?action=getAncestors&key=Ashley-1966&depth=2")
data = response.json()

Answer 2

There's a full class implementation here:

https://github.com/chrrrisw/wikitree-api/blob/feature/python3_examples/examples/python3/wt_session.py

awaiting a pull request on the upstream repo.

Comments

There's also https://github.com/djhenderson/pywikitree by Doug Henderson.