Code for How to Extract Wikipedia Data in Python Tutorial

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wikipedia_extractor.py

import wikipedia # print the summary of what python is print(wikipedia.summary("Python Programming Language")) # search for a term result = wikipedia.search("Neural networks") print("Result search of 'Neural networks':", result) # get the page: Neural network page = wikipedia.page(result[0]) # get the title of the page title = page.title # get the categories of the page categories = page.categories # get the whole wikipedia page text (content) content = page.content # get all the links in the page links = page.links # get the page references references = page.references # summary summary = page.summary # print info print("Page content:\n", content, "\n") print("Page title:", title, "\n") print("Categories:", categories, "\n") print("Links:", links, "\n") print("References:", references, "\n") print("Summary:", summary, "\n") # changing language # for a list of available languages, # check http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias link. language = "es" wikipedia.set_lang(language) # get a page and print the summary in the new language print(f"Summary of web scraping in {language}:", wikipedia.page("Web Scraping").summary)