On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 8:59:04 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 09:03 am, ryguy7272 wrote: > > > I'm looking at this URL. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names > > Don't screen-scrape Wikipedia. Just don't. They have an official API for > downloading content, use it. There's even a Python library for downloading > from Wikipedia and other Mediawiki sites: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot > > Wikimedia does a fantastic job, for free, and automated screen-scraping > hurts their ability to provide that service. It is rude and anti-social. > Please don't do it. > > > > -- > Steven
Thanks Steven. Do you know of a good tutorial for learning about Wikipedia APIs? I'm not sure where to get started on this topic. I did some Google searches, but didn't come up with a lot of useful info...not much actually... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
