Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2015)/Day 2 Projects/Wikipedia/Windows setup
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Download the Wikipedia API project
- Right click the following file, click "Save Target as..." or "Save link as...", and save it to your Desktop directory: http://mako.cc/teaching/2015/cdsw-spring/wikipedia-data-examples.zip
- The ".zip" extension on the above file indicates that it is a compressed Zip archive. We need to "extract" its contents. To do this, click on "Start", then "Computer", and navigate to your Desktop directory. Find wikipedia-data-examples.zip on your Desktop and double-click on it to "unzip" it. That will create a folder called Wikipedia API containing several files.
Test the Wikipedia API code
Start up PowerShell and navigate to the Desktop\wikipedia-data-examples
directory where the Wikipedia API code lives. For example, if the Wikipedia API project is at C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop\wikipedia-data-examples
,
cd C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop\wikipedia-data-examples
will change you into that directory, and
ls
will show you the source code files in that directory. One of the files is "wikipedia1-1.py
", which has a ".py
" extension indicating that it is a Python script. Type:
python wikipedia1-1.py
at the command prompt to execute the wikipedia1-1.py
Python script. Wait a little while while your computer connects to Wikipedia. You should see a series of data from Wikipedia run by on your screen. If you don't, let a staff member know.
Success!
You are done downloading the Wikipedia API project!