Python Project [An application to save any random article from Wikipedia to a text file].

An application to save any random article from Wikipedia to a text file.

Output of the project

Source Code: 

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import requests

# Trying to open a random wikipedia article

# Special:Random opens random articles

res = requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random")

res.raise_for_status()

# pip install htmlparser

wiki = BeautifulSoup(res.text, "html.parser")

r = open("random_wiki.txt", "w+", encoding='utf-8')

# Adding the heading to the text file

heading = wiki.find("h1").text

r.write(heading + "\n")

for i in wiki.select("p"):

    # Optional Printing of text

    # print(i.getText())

    r.write(i.getText())

r.close()

print("File Saved as random_wiki.txt")

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