It's a simple program I built on Python that generates customized URL based on user input, webscrapes information from the person's wikipedia page, and returns the formatted information.
- Install the required dependencies
- Download the repository
- Run the getwikiinfo.py script
You will need three libraries - tkinter (to build the GUI), requests (to send in HTTP requests), and Beautiful Soup (to parse the html file).
Tkinter is included with Python by default
You can pip install the other two libraries.
pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4
Simply run the getwikiinfo.py script. You will be prompted with a simple interface. Type somebody's name (basically anyone who has a wikipedia page). Ideally, it's better to type the first letter of each word of the name in caps because some URLs are not case-insensitive.
- Tkinter - GUI package
- Beautiful Soup - parsing the HTML file
- Amitabha Dey Research Officer at http://devresonance.com. Freethinker. Comp Sci majored. Powered by coffee. Do not go gentle into that good night. More of my rant at http://amitabhadey.com
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