About

A basic wikipedia scraper which grabs information from wikipedia.org based on user input.

Made by Advait Jadhav!

Depends On

• wikipedia==1.4.0
• click==8.0.3
• rich==10.12.0

Installation

1. Download or clone the repository.

2. Open command-line window in the directory containing this repository.

3. Run the command below on command-line.

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Once the dependencies are installed run the command below.

python setup.py install

5. Now, you can call the wikiscraper command from any location on your machine.

A simple example

$ wikiscraper fetch
Enter the query for your wikipedia search: India
    India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world.

We can even specify the number of sentences and language

$ wikiscraper fetch --help
Usage: wikiscraper fetch [OPTIONS]

  fetches and displays information based on the query passed in.

Options:
  -q, --query TEXT         Query for wikipedia search!
  -s, --sentences INTEGER  Number of sentences to be displayed.
  -l, --lang TEXT          Language in which the information will be
                           displayed.
  --help                   Show this message and exit.