Scraping Wikipedia with Python

[Dotan Cohen]

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 Wikipedia license, but if that wheel has already been
invented then I don't want to redo it. I tried googling for a
Wikipedia-specific solution but found none, is there a general purpose
solution that I could use?

Note that I am a regular Wikipedia contributor and plan on staying
within the realm of Wikipedia's rules.


[1] http://ichi2.net/anki/

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Dotan Cohen

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