https://github.com/sidhantpanda/wiki-scraper

A wikipedia category scraper
https://github.com/sidhantpanda/wiki-scraper

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A wikipedia category scraper

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sidhantpanda/wiki-scraper
• Owner: sidhantpanda
• Created: 2014-05-02T00:51:31.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-05-03T16:09:03.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-03T22:41:50.864Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 168 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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#Wiki Scraper

This is a implementation of the wiki tools to get articles from a specific category from wikipedia.

The edit the categories list in poc.py to add/delete categories of your choice.

##How to run

In the terminal, navigate to the repo and run 

$python poc.py

This will create directory called "data" (ignored in .gitignore) and create directories of the categories and save the articles in a text file in the respective directories.