wtf_wikipedia VS scrapeghost

Compare wtf_wikipedia vs scrapeghost and see what are their differences.

wtf_wikipedia

a pretty-committed wikipedia markup parser (by spencermountain)

scrapeghost

👻 Experimental library for scraping websites using OpenAI's GPT API. (by jamesturk)
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wtf_wikipedia scrapeghost
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743 1,396
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8.0 8.2
13 days ago 5 months ago
JavaScript Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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wtf_wikipedia

Posts with mentions or reviews of wtf_wikipedia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.
  • Experimental library for scraping websites using OpenAI's GPT API
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2023
    This may finally be a solution for scraping wikipedia and turning it into structured data. (Or do we even need structured data in the post-AI age?)

    Mediawiki is notorious for being hard to parse:

    * https://github.com/spencermountain/wtf_wikipedia#ok-first- - why it's hard

    * https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/04/26/what-it-takes-to-p... - an entire article about parsing page TITLES

    * https://osr.cs.fau.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/wikitext-pa... - a paper published about a wikitext parser

scrapeghost

Posts with mentions or reviews of scrapeghost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wtf_wikipedia and scrapeghost you can also consider the following projects:

sdow - Six Degrees of Wikipedia

autoscraper - A Smart, Automatic, Fast and Lightweight Web Scraper for Python

anon - tweet about anonymous Wikipedia edits from particular IP address ranges

tmx-solver - ThreatMetrix (anti-bot/fraud-detection) solver, deobfuscator & data harvester

duckling - Language, engine, and tooling for expressing, testing, and evaluating composable language rules on input strings.

wikipedia_ql - Query language for efficient data extraction from Wikipedia

Bandwhich - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

exiftool - ExifTool meta information reader/writer

glances - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.