I've used BeautifulSoup to get plain text out of rendered HTML dumps. Its slow and doesn't work that well. What you really want to do it right is an actual mediawiki parser to strip the syntax out for you.
Try this one: http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Kurt Luther <luther@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:Hi Felipe,
I've found Beautiful Soup to be a useful Python-based HTML parser.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Kurt
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