Wikipedia Scraper
For a recent project, Nickycakes had to code a Wikipedia scraper. Here’s a simplified version of the function for you to use if you want. This code requires a few library files, which are included in LIB_http.zip.
Enjoy:
include(‘LIB_http.php’);
include(‘LIB_parse.php’);
function wikiscrape($topic){
$target = “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/”.urlencode($topic);
$results = http_get($target,”");
$paragraphs = [...]
Scamming Wikipedia Traffic
Wikipedia sucks. Well, for bringing relevant, mostly accurate content, it’s awesome, but who wants to compete with that? Search for nearly anything on google and you will find a wikipedia article at or near the top result. Wikipedia is the bane of many a webmaster’s existence, making it near impossible to rank at the #1 [...]
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