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casinelli/wikipedia
===================

Laravel package to query Wikipedia

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Wikipedia
=========

[](#wikipedia)

### Installation

[](#installation)

Begin by installing this package through Composer.

```
{
    "require": {
        "casinelli/wikipedia": "dev-master"
    }
}
```

### Usage

[](#usage)

**Retrieve page extract**

```
$wikipedia = new \Casinelli\Wikipedia\Wikipedia;

return $wikipedia->search("Rome")->getSentences(5);
```

**Same with QueryBuilder**

```
$qb = new \Casinelli\Wikipedia\QueryBuilder;

$qb->setFormat("php");
$qb->setTitles("Singapore");
$qb->setExtractsSentences(3);
$qb->setExtractsPlainText(true);

$response = unserialize( $qb->fetch() );

$page = reset( $response["query"]["pages"] );

return $page["extract"];
```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity29

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 68.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33734d2ae6af79b0ab00f7e48012325d3f8114d7c2f1410580ad1ca67637f86c?d=identicon)[Casinelli](/maintainers/Casinelli)

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Top Contributors

[![Casinelli](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3205510?v=4)](https://github.com/Casinelli "Casinelli (13 commits)")[![chrismou](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/319883?v=4)](https://github.com/chrismou "chrismou (3 commits)")[![berteltorp](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2384153?v=4)](https://github.com/berteltorp "berteltorp (2 commits)")[![jerodev](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3493941?v=4)](https://github.com/jerodev "jerodev (1 commits)")

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Tags

laravelwikipedia

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