/wikidata-coordinates

Web scraper for coordinates in Wikipedia categories

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Wikipedia scraper for coordinates

MIT license Python Version

Overview

A simple single-screen application built with Flask and Vanilla JavaScript for scraping data from Wikipedia page on different languages and prepare it to use on Wikidata. The purpose of the application is to search for geographical coordinates on each member of a categorical list of Wikipedia pages and produces a table with the collected information. The table contains a column with QuickStatements code for adding to Wikidata.

Features

  • Showing data on an HTML table preview
  • Scrape data from a Wikipedia page

Built With

  • Flesk
  • Jinja2
  • Vanilla JavaScript
  • Beautiful Soup 4