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Wikipedia table to JSON (or other machine-readable format)

The wikitextparser Python module has good support for converting tables into structured formats. Example: import wikitextparser as wtp import requests import json r = requests.get('http://en....
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how to search archive.org for PDF files on a captured website between some date range

here's how i automated the process within R setwd( "C:/path/to/PDFs" ) year <- 2008 domain_name <- "anthem.com" archive_org_captures <- readLines( paste0( "http://...
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how to search archive.org for PDF files on a captured website between some date range

Here is one way, although the API probably has more efficient methods. You can append * to the end of a URL in the Wayback Machine and it will return all of the saved URLs for that domain. The link ...
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Wikipedia table to JSON (or other machine-readable format)

Sometimes it pays off to look one step ahead, i.e. to check if the items and its properties represented by a Wikipedia table are also available in the Wikidata knowledge base. Depending on the data, ...
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how to search archive.org for PDF files on a captured website between some date range

Using the official wayback_machine_downloader tool: wayback_machine_downloader https://www.anthem.com --from 2005 --to 2008 --only "/\.(pdf)$/i"
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Where can I find HTML5 metadata?

HTML is machine-readable/can be parsed, so not sure what you mean by "unprocesable". The document containing the information you desire may as well be valid markup, but more importantly proves its ...
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Wikipedia table to JSON (or other machine-readable format)

You can try with http://pasty.link/ that it has ad hoc function to export in csv and json file.
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Wikipedia table to JSON (or other machine-readable format)

TableTools2 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabletools2/ It's a Firefox addon that enables right-click copying of the table like this: It works quite well and is very stable.
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