Scraping Wikipedia with Python

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Tue Aug 11 14:26:44 EDT 2009


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I plan on making a geography-learning Anki [1] deck, and Wikipedia has
> the information that I need in nicely formatted tables on the side of
> each country's page. Has someone already invented a wheel to parse and
> store that data (scrape)? 

     Wikipedia has an API for computer access.  See

	http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API

				John Nagle



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