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by snvzz 1201 days ago
>beautifulsoup

Really? Seriously? No better way to query the source of a page and render it on the terminal?
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rjh29 1201 days ago
Parsing wikitext is insanely hard. Using HTML is a good compromise.

See also:

* https://github.com/spencermountain/wtf_wikipedia#ok-first-

* https://osr.cs.fau.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/wikitext-pa...

* https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/Parsing...

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snvzz 1201 days ago
Wow.

Much worse than I thought.

If only if mediawiki (php) never happened. Wikipedia was sane at one point.

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