/Wiki_Scraping

Web Scrapping Project that will fetch the details of the college from wikipedia as required by the user.

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Wiki_Scraping

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Wiki Scraping is a simple python web scraping tool to scrap educational institutions details from Wikipedia using user input.

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Project Status

Committed code is scrapping the Motto of MIT. Later on we can enhance the code in such a way that it may be able to fetch any data from wikipedia of any college, school or organizations as per user need.

Contributions

Contribution rules

  • Create a new branch in your forked repository and then start working
  • Include a proper commit message in your commits
  • Always rebase with master:DSC-Galgotias/Wiki_Scraping to avoid merge conflicts whenever you start to work
  • Include proper PR message while giving pull request
  • Try to keep pull requests small to minimize merge conflicts

Getting Started

  • Fork this repo (button on top)
  • Clone on your local machine
        $ git clone https://github.com/DSC-Galgotias/Wiki_Scraping.git
    
  • Change to Wiki_Scraping directory
        $ cd Wiki_Scraping
    
  • Install dependencies :
        $ python setup.py install
    
  • Create a new branch
        $ git checkout -b my-new-branch
    
  • Add your contribution
  • Commit and push
        $ git add .
    
        $ git commit -m "your-commit-msg"
    
        $ git push origin my-new-branch
    
  • Create a new pull request from your forked repository to master branch of DSC-Galgotias/Wiki_Scraping

How to use

  • Open Terminal
  • Go to Wiki_Scraper directory.
  • Install dependencies :
        $ python setup.py install
    
  • Run Wiki_Info.py :
        $ python Wiki_Info.py
    

Technologies used

Remaining Enhancements

  • Basic GUI
  • User input about the organization
  • Multiple options asking about the college, schools or organization like fees, employers, etc

Join the slack Channel : Slack

Contributing

To learn more about how to contribute, check out this guide.