Fetch a Wikipedia article with Python

Question

I try to fetch a Wikipedia article with Python\'s urllib:

f = urllib.urlopen(\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Einstein&printable=yes\")         


        

Answer 1

It is not a solution to the specific problem. But it might be intersting for you to use the mwclient library (http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Python:Mwclient) instead. That would be so much easier. Especially since you will directly get the article contents which removes the need for you to parse the html.

I have used it myself for two projects, and it works very well.