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Author: RohiniRG

Python/Wikipedia Scraper/InfoboxScraper.py

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+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import requests
+
+BOLD = '\033[1m'
+END = '\033[0m'
+
+def get_data(req):
+    """
+    The function will scrape the infobox using BeautifulSoup's parser
+    and gather the information to display.
+    """
+    # Dictionary to store the collected information
+    info_dict = {} 
+
+    # Initializing html parsing object of BeautifulSoup
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(req.text, 'html.parser')
+
+    # Finding the infobox class
+    info_table = soup.find('table', {'class': 'infobox'})
+
+    # Gathering all the text fields within the infobox
+    for tr in info_table.find_all('tr'):
+        try:
+            if tr.find('th'):
+                info_dict[tr.find('th').text] = tr.find('td').text
+
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
+    
+    # Presenting the information in the command line
+    for x, y in info_dict.items():
+        print('\n{}{}{} : \n{}'.format(BOLD, x, END, y))
+
+
+def main():
+    """
+    The main function takes the user input search query and generates the URL
+    to scrape accordingly.
+    """
+    while 1:
+        # Taking user input 
+        entry = input('\nEnter your search query: ')
+        
+        # Formatting the input suitable for the URL
+        entry = entry.split()
+        query = ' '.join([i.capitalize() for i in entry])
+
+        try:
+            # Generating the URL and making the request
+            req = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'+query)
+
+            if req.status_code == 200:
+                get_data(req)
+
+            else:
+                print('\nInvalid URL!')
+        except:
+            print('\nCONNECTION ERROR! TRY AGAIN')
+
+        cont = input('\nWould you like to continue?\nPress (y/n): ')
+        if cont == 'n':
+            break
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+

Python/Wikipedia Scraper/README.md

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+# Wikipedia infobox scraper
+
+- The Wikipedia Infobox provides all the important factoids for any topic.
+- The python script scrapes the Wikipedia Infobox of any user desired query and displays it in a presentable from in the command line.
+
+## Running the script:
+
+```sh
+$ python pomodoro_timer.py
+```
+
+## Working screenshots:
+
+![Image](https://i.imgur.com/oS3ETNU.png)
+
+
+## Author:
+[Rohini Rao](https://github.com/RohiniRG)
+