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Question

I making a python script for personal use but it\'s not working for wikipedia...

This work:

import urllib2, sys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

site =         


        

Answer 1

Within the current code:

Python 2.X

import urllib2, sys
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

site= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StackOverflow"
hdr = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
req = urllib2.Request(site,headers=hdr)
page = urllib2.urlopen(req)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
print soup

Python 3.X

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen

site= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StackOverflow"
hdr = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
req = Request(site,headers=hdr)
page = urlopen(req)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
print(soup)

Python 3.X with Selenium (Javascript functions execution)

from selenium import webdriver as driver

browser = driver.PhantomJS()
p = browser.get("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StackOverflow")
assert "Stack Overflow - Wikipedia" in browser.title

The reason modified version works is because Wikipedia checks for User-Agent to be of "popular browser"