Wikipedia-Scraper

Table of Contents

• About the project
• Tech Stack used
• Install and Run

About the project

This repository contains a Wikipedia-scraper that will scrape the entire wikipedia page and tell us the top 10 Most Frequently used words. It is made using Python as a Backend and HTML CSS in the frontend. I have also deployed it on heroku : https://wikipedia-scraper.herokuapp.com/

Enter a valid wikipedia URL and click on submit.

It will show the results i.e. top 10 frequently used words on that page.

Tech Stack used

Project is created with : HTML, CSS, Flask, Python.

Install and Run

1. Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/TanmayThaker/Wikipedia-Scraper.git
$ cd Wikipedia-Scraper

2. Initialize and activate a virtualenv:

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages env
$ source env/bin/activate

3. Install the dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Run the development server:

$ python app.py

6. Navigate to http://localhost:8000