On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:53 PM, David C Ullrich wrote:
> Try reading a little there! Starting there I went to
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot
>
> where I found a section on existing bots, comments on how the "scraping"
> is not what you want, and even a Python section wi
Dotan Cohen writes:
> > maybe you want dbpedia.
> I did not know about this. Thanks!
You might also like freebase/metaweb.
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> http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=wikipedia ?
>
Thanks, Thorsten, I will go through those. I did not know about that
resource, I am not a regular coder. One more resource to add to the
toolbox!
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> maybe you want dbpedia.
I did not know about this. Thanks!
That is the reason why I ask. This list has an unbelievable collective
knowledge and I am certain that asking "how much is 2+2" would net an
insightful answer that would teach me something.
Thank you, Paul, and thank you to the entire
* Dotan Cohen (Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:29:40 +0300)
> > Wikipedia has an API for computer access. See
> >
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
> >
>
> Yes, I am aware of this as well. Does anyone know of a python class
> for easily interacting with it, or do I need to roll my own.
http://
Dotan Cohen writes:
> Thanks. I read the first bit of that page, but did not finish it.
> Grepping it for Python led to to what I need.
maybe you want dbpedia.
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >Wikipedia has an API for computer access. See
> >
> >http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
> >
>
> Yes, I am aware of this as well. Does anyone know of a python class
> for easily interacting with it, or do I need to roll my own.
>
> Try reading a little there! Starting there I went to
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot
>
> where I found a section on existing bots, comments on how the "scraping"
> is not what you want, and even a Python section with a link to something
> labelled PyWikipediaBot...
>
T
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:29:40 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Wikipedia has an API for computer access. See
>>
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
>>
>>
> Yes, I am aware of this as well. Does anyone know of a python class for
> easily interacting with it, or do I need to roll my own.
Try
> Wikipedia has an API for computer access. See
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
>
Yes, I am aware of this as well. Does anyone know of a python class
for easily interacting with it, or do I need to roll my own.
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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
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)? It is probably not difficult to code, and
within the Wikipedi
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