An application to save any random article from Wikipedia to a text file.
Install:
pip install htmlparser
<code>pip install beautifulsoup4</code>
Code language: HTML, XML (xml)
Requirement:
- HTMLParser==0.0.2
Source Code:
wiki_random.py
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
# Trying to open a random wikipedia article
# Special:Random opens random articles
res = requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random")
res.raise_for_status()
# pip install htmlparser
wiki = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")
r = open("random_wiki.txt", "w+", encoding='utf-8')
# Adding the heading to the text file
heading = wiki.find("h1").text
r.write(heading + "\n")
for i in wiki.select("p"):
# Optional Printing of text
# print(i.getText())
r.write(i.getText())
r.close()
print("File Saved as random_wiki.txt")
Code language: PHP (php)