Scraping Wikipedia with Python

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 15:14:07 EDT 2009


> Try reading a little there! Starting there I went to
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot
>
> where I found a section on existing bots, comments on how the "scraping"
> is not what you want, and even a Python section with a link to something
> labelled  PyWikipediaBot...
>

Thanks. I read the first bit of that page, but did not finish it.
Grepping it for Python led to to what I need.

Sorry for the noise.


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