From 3982993f18538932bfdd8d310b63bca02324fece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NerdyPepper <akshayoppiliappan@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:15:11 +0530
Subject: Finish basic extracts

---
 src/main.rs | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/main.rs

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..951c94c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+extern crate reqwest;
+extern crate serde_json;
+
+use serde_json::Value;
+
+fn main() {
+    println!("{}", get_extract("scale"));
+}
+
+fn get_extract(title: &str) -> String {
+    let url = format!("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=extracts&list=&meta=&indexpageids=1&continue=%7C%7Cimageinfo&titles={}&exlimit=20&explaintext=1&exsectionformat=plain", title);
+    let res = reqwest::get(&url);
+
+    match res {
+        Ok(mut res) => {
+            if res.status().is_success() {
+                let mut v: Value = serde_json::from_str(&res.text().unwrap()).unwrap();
+
+                // Fetch page and pageids of requested title(s)
+                let pageid = &v["query"]["pageids"][0];
+                let pageid_str = match pageid {
+                    Value::String(id) => id,
+                    _ => panic!("wut"),
+                };
+
+                format!("{:#}", &v["query"]["pages"][pageid_str]["extract"])
+            } else {
+                format!("Error while parsing url.\nRecieved {}", res.status())
+            }
+        },
+        Err(_) => {
+            format!("Failed to parse URL")
+        }
+    }
+}
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