wikipedia-download

Python script to download Wikipedia articles for reading. Intended for language learners: it searches the article from lang1, downloads it, and finds the translation of it in lang2.

Basically it's a stripped down version of wikipedia's print option. This script deletes: scripts, styles, navigation links, categories, subtitle, list and links of references/bibliography (but not footnotes), the TOC and deletes interwiki links.

You get this simple version for easier reading just the "main text", useful if you use popup dictionaries.

Syntax

wikipedia_download csv folder -f lang -t lang

• csv: a "comma-separated values" file. No quot characters and the delimiter is tab. Two columns: the first is the article's title and the second is the filename of the processed file. Example:

  wikipedia wiki
  

  That searches the article "wikipedia", process it and saves as wiki_lang.html. The filename it's used in both (language) resulting files.

• folder: the output folder where files are saved to

• -f lang: the language to search from (the main language). By default is 'en'

• -t lang: the language of desired translation.

lang codes must be the ones that Wikipedia uses, like ISO 639

Requirements

This script requires requests and BeautifulSoup