A bot playing the Wikipedia game

This project uses Python to play the WikiGame automatically.

Strategies :

Random : If the end page is not found, chooses a random link
Unlikely to succeed
With NLP : Chooses the word closest to the target in the page using similarity computed with spacy
- Max : similarity is computed as the max similarity between words from the two strings
  Could get stuck in pages about Turkey (country) when trying to get to Bacon
- Mean : Similarity is computed as the average similarity between words from the two strings
  Better when facing the previous issue

Tools:

Request to call the Wikipedia API
BeautifulSoup to parse html
Spacy to find similarities with NLP

Choose a spacy ressource :

Download ressource (https://spacy.io/models/en) :

Small :
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
Medium :
python -m spacy download en_core_web_md
Large :
python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg

In spacyTools.py choose between 'sm', 'md' and 'lg' by editing the following line :
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_lg')

Run :

python main.py

Example :