Web Scraping Wikipedia Using Python and Selenium

This project shows how I used Selenium WebDriver to scrape and navigate real websites dynamically, — built as part of my coursework.

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✅ 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

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🧠 Stack

• Python

• Selenium

• webdriver-manager

• Wikipedia as a test target

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🧩 Why It Matters

Many scraping projects rely on static HTML or requests.
But real-world websites often require interaction — 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.

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📚 Academic Note

This project was part of a practical module:
Web Scraping Using Selenium in Python
📖 Symbiosis School of Online and Distance Learning
📌 Original repo reference: naru94

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🔗 GitHub Repo

👉 selenium-wikipedia-scraper

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🧑‍💻 About Me

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

Connect with me on LinkedIn

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