Hi, Try not to be caught if you send multiple requests :)
Have a look at here: http://wolfprojects.altervista.org/changeua.php Regards Kutlu On Nov 26, 5:45 am, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > I'm trying to scrape a Wikipedia page from Python. Following instructions > here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_downloadhttp://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
