feat_art.py

import string
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


def get_article_names(url):
    response = requests.get(url)
    response.raise_for_status()  # Raise an error if the request failed

    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")

    article_links = soup.select("p")

    article_names = [a.get_text().replace("   --", "").replace("\xa0–", "") for a in article_links if a.get_text().strip()][11:-1]
    return article_names

article_names = []
url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles"
names = get_article_names(url)
article_names.extend(names)

# Save the article names to a file (one article per line)
output_file = "feat_art.txt"
with open(output_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
    for name in article_names:
        file.write(name)

print(f"Saved {len(article_names)} article names to {output_file}")