Simple Wikipedia Visualizer

Starting

To get started, please ensure you have python3 and pip3 installed.

a. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/michaelstresing/wiki_viz

b. Enter the repo:

cd wiki_viz

c. Install the requirements:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

CLI

Argument	CLI Symbol	Default
URL	--url	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk
Width (# of links scraped /page)	--w (or) --width	3
Depth (# of steps away from url)	--d (or) --depth	4

For example:

python3 main.py --url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_(singer) --d 4 --w 5

Example Output

Here is a sample output of the graph starting on Tim Berners-Lee's page, scraping 4 links per page, 3 layers deep.

(Alternative) Using NX graphs instead

Please note, for an alternative rendering of the vizualisation, using nx/matplotlib, please run:

 export WIKI_CRAWL_OUTPUT="nx"

Then use as normal.