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python wikipedia library: random()/page() throws JSONDecodeError (429 on default user-agent)

Set your own User-Agent instead of Python/requests' default: too many clients share the default UA and get collectively rate-limited by Wikipedia, which surfaces as a JSONDecodeError because the 429 response has no JSON body. Configure a descriptive UA per the Wikimedia user-agent policy (identify y…

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Handling DisambiguationError in the python wikipedia library

Catch the exception and use its options attribute: the DisambiguationError carries the list of candidate article titles. Pattern from the maintainer: try: page = wikipedia.page("Recommendation") except wikipedia.exceptions.DisambiguationError as e: print(e.options) Then pick the intended title and c…

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