adam2809 / wiki_scraping

Web Scrapping Project that will fetch the details of the college from wikipedia as required by the user.

Wiki_Scraping

Wiki Scraping is a simple python web scraping tool to scrap educational institutions details from Wikipedia using user input.

This repository is part of Gof-2018 . Don't forget to register yourself before contributing.

Project Status

Committed code is scrapping the Motto of MIT. Later on we can enhance the code in such a way that it may be able to fetch any data from wikipedia of any college, school or organizations as per user need.

Contributions

Contribution rules

• Create a new branch in your forked repository and then start working
• Include a proper commit message in your commits
• Always rebase with master:DSC-Galgotias/Wiki_Scraping to avoid merge conflicts whenever you start to work
• Include proper PR message while giving pull request
• Try to keep pull requests small to minimize merge conflicts

Getting Started

• Fork this repo (button on top)
• Clone on your local machine

      $ git clone https://github.com/DSC-Galgotias/Wiki_Scraping.git
  

• Change to Wiki_Scraping directory

      $ cd Wiki_Scraping
  

• Install dependencies :

      $ python setup.py install
  

• Create a new branch

      $ git checkout -b my-new-branch
  

• Add your contribution
• Commit and push

      $ git add .
  

      $ git commit -m "your-commit-msg"
  

      $ git push origin my-new-branch
  

• Create a new pull request from your forked repository to master branch of DSC-Galgotias/Wiki_Scraping

How to use

• Open Terminal
• Go to Wiki_Scraper directory.
• Install dependencies :

      $ python setup.py install
  

• Run Wiki_Info.py :

      $ python Wiki_Info.py
  

Technologies used

• Python

Remaining Enhancements

• Basic GUI
• User input about the organization
• Multiple options asking about the college, schools or organization like fees, employers, etc

Join the slack Channel : Slack

Contributing

To learn more about how to contribute, check out this guide.