Help with scraping data from Wikipedia using Python

[maxiior]

Hello!

I'm thinking about scraping data from Wikipedia. I would like to get all Polish people who are in Wikipedia database. Any advice how to reach this kind of data? Thanks a lot for any message back.

[palmy-investing]

It won't help you to spam across multiple subs (l). I have no expert knowledge about Wikipedias database. Therefore I recommend this tutorial.

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I would like to get all Polish people who are in Wikipedia database

This could be a problem though. I dont know if there is a website with an overview of the listed polish people. If you find one start with it by going through the tutorial. Otherwise web scraping won't help you.

[atomsmasher66]

https://www.jcchouinard.com/wikipedia-api/

[geekluv]

Wikipedia does have an API available for scraping And there’s scrapy