Find Top N Word Frequency
Program to fetch a Wikipedia page and report the top n words on that page.
The user inputs to the program are page_id and n (number of top frequent words to print).
The fixed URL to fetch a page from Wikipedia is
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&pageids=<PAGE ID>&explaintext&format=json
Python Requirements
The program is built and tested on Python2.7 & Python3.7. This program uses the requests library for URL calls. The library can be installed by executing following command from program root directory as
pip install -i requirements.txt
Python Unit Test
To Execute the python unit test, execute following command in program root directory.
python word_frequency_test.py
Program Execution Example
> python word_frequency.py
[ FINDING TOP N MOST FREQUENT WORDS ]
# Please Enter Wiki Page Id to fetch content from (accepts digits only): 21721040
# Please Enter how many top Frequent words to print (accepts digits only): 5
URL being called: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&pageids=21721040&explaintext&format=json
Title : Stack Overflow
Top 5 Words:
- 20 Stack, questions
- 17 Overflow
- 12 users
- 11 site, that
- 10 question