killian31 / wikipedia-map

Scraping Wikipedia in order to create a map of the concepts around a topic

Wikipedia-Map

Scraping Wikipedia in order to create a map of the concepts around a base word (in French), using Gephi, an open source graph visualization platform. Below is an exemple of a map we can obtain using the base word 'Ampoule':

Installation

First, clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/killian31/Wikipedia-Map.git

Then, install the dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To start the program, run

python3 wikiscrap.py

You will then be prompted to choose the desired language between English (en) and French (fr), before being prompted what is the central topic to start scraping Wikipedia from.