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Re:Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit by billpg on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:15AM (#28234911)
(Author of original article here.)

That's the great thing about HtmlAgilityPack, extracting data from HTML is really easy. I might even say even easier than if I had the page in some table-based data system.

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Re:Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit by SlimyHog on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:19AM (#28234969)
The HTML is more volatile and subject to change than other sources though
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Re:Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit by FalconSensei on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:32PM (#28235923)
Don't remember the last time wikipedia changed the infobox though
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