Scripts to extract infoboxes and visualise dates from wikipedia.
Made using Python Standard Library (3.7.1).
Currently support only the english wikipedia.
Script with user input to extract wikipedia infoboxes and links from a wikipedia xml file to a json file. See examples
Tkinter script to extract dates ( by using finddate.py) from the created json file (by using wikitojson.py) and visualise it on a created timeline. Can also try to search dates in the text itself (from the xml file or url), which is useful if a page has no infobox.
Returns a list with dates from a string and classifies whether the dates are periods (example: 1204–1261). Its build with wikipedia xml format in mind. (supports the Hijri calendar)
The wikitojson.py search through a single xml file. The best way to get the data is through torrenting a wikipedia dump file.
timeline.py can scrap the en.wikipedia xml export from a single url. It can also scrap every page which was linked in the given requested page, with a 1 second delay between every url to reduce wikipedia's server load.
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0