Wikipedia, Python, ChatGPT

I wanted to get the first image of a Wikipedia page and the coordinates.

ChatGPT was very helpful here as well.

The code ChatGPT provided worked with the examples it used. I made only some small adjustments to the code below.

Image

Code

try:
    import wikipedia
except ImportError:
    ! pip install wikipedia

ChatGPT added comments to every line of the code. I combined them into blocks to make the snippet more concise.

import urllib

import requests
import wikipedia

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Set the Wikipedia page title and get page
page_title = "Berlin"
page = wikipedia.page(page_title)

# Get html content of page and parse it with BeautifulSoup
html = page.html()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

# Find the infobox image element and get url image
image_element = soup.find("table", class_="infobox").find("img")
image_url = "https:" + image_element["src"]

# Download the image
urllib.request.urlretrieve(image_url, 'image.jpg')

('image.jpg', <http.client.HTTPMessage at 0x7fffb459a430>)

Coordinates

import requests
import json

# function to get the coordinates from the infobox of a Wikipedia article
def get_coordinates(title):
    url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
    params = {
        "action": "query",
        "prop": "coordinates",
        "titles": title,
        "format": "json",
        "formatversion": 2
    }
    response = requests.get(url, params=params)
    data = json.loads(response.text)
    pages = data["query"]["pages"]
    coordinates = None
    for page in pages:
        if "coordinates" in page:
            coordinates = page["coordinates"][0]
            break
    return coordinates

# example usage
title = "Berlin"
coordinates = get_coordinates(title)
print(coordinates["lat"], coordinates["lon"])

52.52 13.405

Map

import folium

map_coord = [coordinates['lat'], coordinates['lon']]

# create the map
map = folium.Map(location=map_coord, zoom_start=3.5)

# add a marker at the location
folium.Marker(location=map_coord, popup=title).add_to(map)

# display the map
map

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