Automated Web Scraping for Wikipedia Articles
Description
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual open content online encyclopedia created through the collaborative effort of a community with purpose is to benefit readers with information on all branches of knowledge. This demo brings the functionality to scrap the article by just giving the name of the topic.
Technical Background
This demo is built on Python and it uses some famous packages of Python like wikipedia and worcloud. Wikipedia is a Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia. While "wordcloud" is used to peform some visualizations of words from the scraped article.
Use Cases
The main use case of this demo is to find your desired article. Whether you are a researcher, student or a reading person you may find this demo useful.
How can we use this demo?
This app takes the article name and language code from you and scrape the article to extract content, linked articles etc. You can use the given examples as well by just clicking on it.