I think that this project, pywikiscrape, has been a very fun project to make so far and has helped me resolve many new types of errors I haven’t had much experience correcting. I’ve added many features, such as custom seed input, support for scraping in any language (as long as it has a Wikipedia), and many, many more things. For each and every feature added, the number of variables skyrockets, making it very hard to debug and work in any circumstance. For example, I was stuck for so long trying to solve an error that was caused by an unintentional slip of my keyboard, removing the f before an f-string. The issue wasn’t solving the error, it was finding where it was. I was considering such big things, when the reality was much smaller. I also accidentally slipped in a backslash in the version number, which was very fast to fix in the code after I realized it, but I had already pushed and tagged it. That was another one of my very big keyboard slip-ups. Encountering this taught me how to handle catastrophic errors once they’ve already been pushed. And, outside of the coding aspect, I think I really grew in my documentation skills. This was my first ever project with an image, database schemas, or tables for installation in the README. And, I created an X/Twitter account to try and bring more traction to my code for the purposes of this project, my first time using social media to publicize my code. I still have more things in plan for this project.
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