wiki-articles-crawler

A python script that will crawl through Wikipedia articles and extract out embedded links, external links, content and headings from the articles.

Requirements

• Python And following libraries are required
• requests
• BeautifulSoup
• os
• random
• re
• argparse
  Most of the above mentioned libraries are in-built in python.

Usage

The wikiScrapper.py script takes two arguments: Starting Article URL and Epochs (how many articles to extract starting from the starter URL).
For example, python wikiScrapper.py https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves 20 starts the crawling from Keanu's Wikipedia Article and will extract out 20 more articles, by selecting random links within Keanu's article and so on.
For more help, type python wikiScrapper.py -h for help regarding arguments.

Output

Once the extraction/crawling has been done, the data of articles will be stored in Articles folder, with a following structure:

Articles/
   0/
    articleLink.txt
    bodyLinks.txt
    bodyText.txt
    externalLinks.txt
    headingsText.txt
   1/
    articleLink.txt
    bodyLinks.txt
    .....
    ...