Web Scraping Wikipedia Using Python and Selenium

satya bollojusatya bolloju
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This project shows how I used Selenium WebDriver to scrape and navigate real websites dynamically, โ€” built as part of my coursework.


โœ… Key Features

  • Launches Chrome browser automatically

  • Navigates to Wikipedia

  • Finds page elements using:

    • ID

    • CLASS NAME

    • TAG NAME

    • LINK TEXT

    • CSS SELECTOR

  • Clicks and reads text from live HTML

  • Extracts and prints structured results


๐Ÿง  Stack

  • Python

  • Selenium

  • webdriver-manager

  • Wikipedia as a test target


๐Ÿงฉ Why It Matters

Many scraping projects rely on static HTML or requests.
But real-world websites often require interaction โ€” clicking, searching, switching tabs.

This project proves that even a beginner can automate navigation, structure DOM targeting, and scale up scraping from a tutorial to a usable pattern.


๐Ÿ“š Academic Note

This project was part of a practical module:
Web Scraping Using Selenium in Python
๐Ÿ“– Symbiosis School of Online and Distance Learning
๐Ÿ“Œ Original repo reference: naru94


๐Ÿ”— GitHub Repo

๐Ÿ‘‰ selenium-wikipedia-scraper


๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป About Me

Data Analyst at Sheetal Manufacturing Co.
MSc Data Science student at Symbiosis School of Online and Distance Learning

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