[Tutor] python and Beautiful soup question

[Timo]

Op 21-06-15 om 22:04 schreef Joshua Valdez:
> I'm having trouble making this script work to scrape information from a
> series of Wikipedia articles.
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> What I'm trying to do is iterate over a series of wiki URLs and pull out
> the page links on a wiki portal category (e.g.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Electronic_design).
Instead of scraping the webpage, I'd have a look at the API. This might 
give much better and more reliable results than to rely on parsing HTML.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

You can try out the huge amount of different options (with small 
descriptions) on the sandbox page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox

Timo

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