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Python Project: Extract Intro Paragraphs from a Wikipedia Page

Python Project: Extract Intro Paragraphs from a Wikipedia Page

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Ardit Sulce
Apr 24, 2025
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Project Overview 💡

In this project, you'll learn how to use the requests and BeautifulSoup libraries to scrape the introductory paragraphs of a Wikipedia page and save them to a text file. This is a great beginner project for learning web scraping with Python.


Challenge Yourself! 🚀

Before checking the solution, try writing a script that fetches a Wikipedia page and extracts its first few paragraphs.

Task:

Write a Python script that:

  • Sends a request to a Wikipedia article URL

  • Parses the HTML content

  • Extracts the first four paragraphs

  • Saves the text to a text file

Expected Output:

The program should save the first four paragraphs in a text file:

Give it a shot! Scroll down when you're ready for the step-by-step guide.









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