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• Global Timeline ,
• Tags: global timeline, python, regex, scraping, scripting
• 14 Mar

Before reading this, I recommend you read part 1 here. File Handling Now that I have Wikipedia pages downloaded, I need to parse through the text and markup to get just the information I need for my other project. The first step in parsing through all these files was to open every file in a specified

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• Global Timeline ,
• Tags: encoding, global timeline, python, scraping, scripting
• 13 Mar

As part of a larger project (Global Timeline), I set out to write a script to scrape Wikipedia pages for events, dates, and locations for an initial set of data. There were several major steps involved, each bringing its own challenge. Gathering Pages Which Pages? The first step I had to accomplish was to find