Wikipedia Scraper

Welcome to the Wikipedia Scraper!

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ascii from http://www.patorjk.com/software/taag/

Description

This programs calls an API that gives a list of countries and a list of leaders for each country.

Each leader is represented by an ID linked to a Wikipedia url.

The programs reads the first paragraph of each leader and writes the output in a json file.

Installation

git clone [email protected]:audeha/wikipedia-scraper.git

cd wikipedia-scraper

Usage

pip install -r requirements.txt

python3 main.py

The results are in "leaders_data.json" --> open with your browser

Visuals