toolwiki 0.1.10

A python library to extract information from Wikipedia pages.

toolwiki

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 toolwiki package from PyPI:

python -m pip install toolwiki

toolwiki 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', table_indices= [], 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]]