Web Scraping Using Python: Wikipedia (API & Web Crawler)

Web scraping using Python and 2 different approaches: custom crawler and using Wikipedia API. Our first approach is to get information from a website using the Requests and BeautifulSoup4 Python packages. Next, to that, we will use Wikipedia’s API (MediaWiki) and Wikipedia-API Python library (which is basically wrapper around Wikipedia’s API) to gather data from the Wikipedia website. Also, I give additional information about the advantages and disadvantages of each approach: web crawler vs API. ***************************************************** Hey guys, if you really like this video please “Like”, “Favorite” and “Share” it with your friends to show your support - it really helps and motivates me a lot! If there’s something you’d like to see me talking on the channel, let me know about it in the comments. My name is Kanan Rahimov and I am a Software Engineer (http://kenanbek.me). Every day via CoderVlogger I share my thoughts, knowledge, and experience on various topics related to Software Development & Programming. Let’s learn and code together. SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/2SAN2c3 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FOLLOW ME ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/CoderVlogger FACEBOOK: http://fb.me/CoderVlogger INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/CoderVlogger TWITTER: http://twitter.com/CoderVlogger MEDIUM: https://medium.com/CoderVlogger WEBSITE: http://codervlogger.com ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– LINKS IN THE VIDEO ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Source code: http://bit.ly/2s4bHdB Requests: http://bit.ly/2s2YaCY BeautifulSoup4: http://bit.ly/2VjFbBs Wikipedia API: http://bit.ly/2QkJKrt