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I'm trying to write a python program that can search wikipedia for the birth and death dates for people. For example, Albert Einstein was born: 14 March 1879; died: 18 April 1955. I started with Fetch a Wikipedia article with Python import urllib2 opener = urllib2.build_opener() opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')] infile = opener.open('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvsection=0&titles=Albert_Einstein&format=xml') page2 = infile.read() This works as far as it goes. page2 is the xml representation of the section from Albert Einstein's wikipedia page. And I looked at this tutorial, now that I have the page in xml format... http://www.travisglines.com/web-coding/python-xml-parser-tutorial , but I don't understand how to get the information I want (birth and death dates) out of the xml. I feel like I must be close, and yet, I have no idea how to proceed from here. EDIT After a few responses, I've installed BeautifulSoup. I'm now at the stage where I can print: import BeautifulSoup as BS soup = BS.BeautifulSoup(page2) print soup.getText() {{Infobox scientist | name = Albert Einstein | image = Einstein 1921 portrait2.jpg | caption = Albert Einstein in 1921 | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1879|3|14}} | birth_place = [[Ulm]], [[Kingdom of Württemberg]], [[German Empire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1955|4|18|1879|3|14}} | death_place = [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], New Jersey, United States | spouse = [[Mileva Marić]]&amp;nbsp;(1903–1919)&lt;br&gt;{{nowrap|[[Elsa Löwenthal]]&amp;nbsp;(1919–1936)}} | residence

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