I'm trying to scrape a Wikipedia page from Python. Following instructions here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export I use the URL "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Train"; instead of just "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train";. But instead of getting the page I expect, and can see in my browser, I get an error page: >>> import urllib >>> url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Train"; >>> print urllib.urlopen(url).read() ... Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon ... (Output is obviously truncated for your sanity and mine.) Is there a trick to downloading from Wikipedia with urllib? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
