Web Scraping Wikipedia Using Python and Selenium

This project shows how I used Selenium WebDriver to scrape and navigate real websites dynamically, โ built as part of my coursework.
โ 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
๐ง Stack
Python
Selenium
webdriver-manager
Wikipedia as a test target
๐งฉ 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.
๐ Academic Note
This project was part of a practical module:
Web Scraping Using Selenium in Python
๐ Symbiosis School of Online and Distance Learning
๐ Original repo reference: naru94
๐ GitHub Repo
๐ selenium-wikipedia-scraper
๐งโ๐ป About Me
Data Analyst at Sheetal Manufacturing Co.
MSc Data Science student at Symbiosis School of Online and Distance Learning
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