https://github.com/cldellow/wiki-actors
Some random exploration of Oscars data
https://github.com/cldellow/wiki-actors
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Some random exploration of Oscars data
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/cldellow/wiki-actors
- Owner: cldellow
- Created: 2018-01-05T22:23:32.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-01-28T15:21:54.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-29T12:13:21.012Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 475 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# wiki-actors
Some random exploration of Oscars data.
See [related blogpost](https://cldellow.com/bash/2018/01/06/scraping-wikipedia-using-bash.html)
## Setup
### pup
```
wget https://github.com/ericchiang/pup/releases/download/v0.4.0/pup_v0.4.0_linux_amd64.zip
unzip pup_v0.4.0_linux_amd64.zip
sudo mv pup /usr/bin/pup
```
### jq
```
wget https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.5/jq-linux64
sudo mv jq-linux64 /usr/bin/jq
```
### ministat
```
sudo apt-get install ministat
```
## Usage
Run `./wp` to see options.
Sample output:
```
$ ./wp infobox George_Clooney
[...html spew...]
$ ./wp bday George_Clooney
1961-05-06
$ ./wp age George_Clooney
56
$ ./wp age George_Clooney 1970-07-20
9
$ ./wp best_actor | head -n5
1927 Emil_Jannings won
1927 Richard_Barthelmess nominated
1928 Warner_Baxter won
1928 George_Bancroft_(actor) nominated
1928 Chester_Morris nominated
$ ./wp ages best_actor | head -n5
1927 Emil_Jannings won 42
1927 Richard_Barthelmess nominated 31
1928 Warner_Baxter won 38
1928 George_Bancroft_(actor) nominated 45
1928 Chester_Morris nominated 26
```