Story

During COVID-19 pandemic, in GitHub meanders I discovered a code repository handling a problem of Polish names declension. It looked quite outdated – out of creative boredom I decided to update it and put my web-scraping skills to the real test. 

Solution

My priority was being responsible in my web-scraping efforts, realized by a Selenium Chromium webdriver on my local machine. Finally, Wikipedia did not scream any protest, and politely returned updated declension of more names than previously.

Example names

• • Female Polish names on Wikipedia: click here,
  • Male Polish names on Wikipedia: click here.

Declension rules

Lesson Learned

In the end, this simple programming exercise turned out to be a fun challenge. I enjoyed it a lot – and learned a lot about the intricacies of the Polish Language, which, not-surprisingly, is my mother tongue.