Web Scraping for NLP: Building a Text Corpus in Python
Building an NLP text corpus takes more than scraping HTML — you need clean article text and useful metadata for every document. This guide scrapes ten Wikipedia articles across two categories, extracts just the lead section with BeautifulSoup, and saves the result as a labeled JSONL corpus ready for cleaning and vectorization.
July 15, 2026 in Python, Machine Learning by Mehdi Lotfinejad11 minutes