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Subject:    Re: Does Python allow variables to be passed into function for dynamic screen scraping?
From:       ryguy7272 <ryanshuell () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-11-29 4:52:59
Message-ID: 2e25f82c-1ed6-4c56-836d-8f9a25990ea9 () googlegroups ! com
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On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 8:59:04 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 09:03 am, ryguy7272 wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking at this URL.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_place_names
> 
> Don't screen-scrape Wikipedia. Just don't. They have an official API for
> downloading content, use it. There's even a Python library for downloading
> from Wikipedia and other Mediawiki sites:
> 
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot
> 
> Wikimedia does a fantastic job, for free, and automated screen-scraping
> hurts their ability to provide that service. It is rude and anti-social.
> Please don't do it.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven

Thanks Steven.  Do you know of a good tutorial for learning about Wikipedia APIs?  \
I'm not sure where to get started on this topic.  I did some Google searches, but \
                didn't come up with a lot of useful info...not much actually...
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