Python to Save Random Wikipedia Article to Text with Full Source Code For Beginners

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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)

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