Python Web Scraping: List all language names and number of related articles in the order they appear in wikipedia
Write a Python program to list all language names and number of related articles in the order they appear in wikipedia.org.
Sample Solution:
Python Code:
from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = urlopen('https://www.wikipedia.org/')
bs = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
nameList = bs.findAll('a', {'class' : 'link-box'})
for name in nameList:
print(name.get_text())
Sample Output:
English 5 675 000+ articles 日本語 1 111 000+ 記事 Español 1 427 000+ artículos Deutsch 2 195 000+ Artikel Русский 1 481 000+ статей Français 1 997 000+ articles Italiano 1 446 000+ voci 中文 1 012 000+ 條目 Português 1 000 000+ artigos Polski 1 288 000+ haseł
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