A bot that can play the Wikipedia Game very fast!
The Wikipedia Game involves finding a path between two wikipedia articles through a series of clickable links. For example, if you want to move from "Chimpanzee" to "Kevin Bacon", a possible path would be:
[Chimpanzee -> King Kong -> Monster Movie -> Tremors (film) -> Kevin Bacon]
This game can be a competition to see who can create the optimal path with the least clicks or who can complete the path fastest.
This project was adapted from an undergraduate assignment I was given in an Intro to Software Development course last year. The task was to create a bot that mimics a human trying to find a path as quickly as possibly. I thought the project was fun enough to continue improving it, and this is the result.
The above code will create a sequence of Wikipedia titles that connect Chimpanzee to Kevin Bacon.