How to Download Wikipedia

Did you know you can collect data from Wikipedia?

Wikipedia has very comprehensive information on nearly every topic. It looks like unstructured free text but most of the information on wikipedia is linked to each other and it is structured on a platform called Wikidata. By using a query language, you can collect data on any domain you might want.

In this video, we look into how to collect data on directors who were nominated or awarded an Academy Award for best director.

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[hagalhagal]

Best source of information on how to download information from Wikipedia!

[anirbanbhowmik]

Thank you very much for this video!! Maybe I won't use it right at this moment, but I can very well imagine the value of this knowledge. Often, people don't understand that they really need to keep in mind that most of their viewers would likely be 'dummies', just like me! And, this video is really perfect! ❤️

[ColinTorrible]

You rock! Thank you so much for thia video. This is exactly what I was looking to learn and you nailed it.

[josevanderlleegs]

its nice...its pritty cool and helpful...great video!!

[Avra_b]

Ah this is pretty cool, thanks . Your videos on streamlit was useful as well :)

[latafatali]

I need to scrap Edit history of a wikipedia page. Help !!

[misraturp]

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[yoyovatsa]

It went from 0 to 100 real quick when you pasted that query. One doubt though, how do we get to know what columns are there, for some other data we might need, this seems like a very good alternative to scraping and then spending endless time cleaning the data. Also the link in the description isn't working. Nice video overall, thanks

[sushrutdhiman]

Hi! I'm facing a problem, rows with empty columns are getting dropped.
Please tell me if there's way to avoid that

[alizhadigerov]

Hi! How to scrap exact text from Wikipedia?