toolwiki 0.1.1

A python library to extract information from Wikipedia pages.

Extract Information From Wikipedia Pages

This is a python library to extract information from Wikipedia pages.

Contents

• tables.py includes function to extract information from a wikipedia table as a pandas dataframe.

Installation

You can install the Real Python Feed Reader from PyPI:

python -m pip install toolwiki

The reader is supported on Python 3.7 and above.

How to use

You can use this package in your own Python code by importing from the toolwiki package:

>>> from toolwiki import tables
>>> dfs= tables.get_dataframes(url='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFC_events', by_class='wikitable', raw=False)
[                                         Event  ...  Ref.
1                                      UFC 276  ...   [9]
2                          UFC Fight Night 211  ...  [10]
..   ...                                         ...  ...        ...    ...
14                         UFC Fight Night 202  ...  [20]
15            UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Hill  ...  [21]
[15 rows x 5 columns],        #                                       Event  ... Attendance   Ref.
1    593          UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker II  ...     17,872   [22]
2    592  UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Strickland  ...        N/A   [23]
..   ...                                         ...  ...        ...    ...
601  002                           UFC 2: No Way Out  ...      2,000  [558]
602  001                        UFC 1: The Beginning  ...      7,800  [559]
[602 rows x 7 columns]]