from json import loads from urllib import urlencode, quote url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/' number_of_results = 10 def request(query, params): search_url = url + 'w/api.php?action=query&list=search&{query}&srprop=timestamp&format=json' params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'srsearch': query})) return params def response(resp): search_results = loads(resp.text) res = search_results.get('query', {}).get('search', []) return [{'url': url + 'wiki/' + quote(result['title'].replace(' ', '_').encode('utf-8')), 'title': result['title']} for result in res[:int(number_of_results)]]