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Add option to retrieve ExplainXKCD entry #6

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nogarcia opened this issue Apr 22, 2019 · 1 comment
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Add option to retrieve ExplainXKCD entry #6

nogarcia opened this issue Apr 22, 2019 · 1 comment
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XKCD can get pretty meta. I'd like to get an explanation.
This would require some web-scraping, which can get kludgy really quickly.
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I found out MediaWiki has an option to retrieve the wiki page text in raw form. A request to https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/614:_Woodpecker?action=raw returns

[comic 
...

I could iterate through each line and cut out everything outside the Transcript.

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