Re: Scraping Wikipedia with Python

[John Nagle]

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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