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@@ -777,18 +765,21 @@ <h1>Special Export tool</h1>
 
 <p>The <strong>Special Export</strong> tool fetches specific pages with their raw content (<em>wikitext</em>) in real-time, without needing to download the entire dataset. The content is provided in XML format.</p>
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-<li><a href="#using-the-special-export-tool">Using the Special Export Tool</a><ul>
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-<li><a href="#using-the-requests-library">Using the requests Library</a></li>
+<li><a href="#importing-packages">Importing Packages</a></li>
+<li><a href="#using-the-special-export-tool">Using the Special Export Tool</a></li>
+<li><a href="#fetching-xml-data-with-requests">Fetching XML Data with requests</a></li>
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+<h2 id="importing-packages">Importing Packages<a class="headerlink" href="#importing-packages" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
+<div class="language-python highlight"><table class="highlighttable"><tr><th colspan="2" class="filename"><span class="filename">Python</span></th></tr><tr><td class="linenos"><div class="linenodiv"><pre><span></span><span class="normal">1</span></pre></div></td><td class="code"><div><pre><span></span><code><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">requests</span> <span class="c1"># to fetch info from URLs</span>
+</code></pre></div></td></tr></table></div>
 <h2 id="using-the-special-export-tool">Using the <strong>Special Export</strong> Tool<a class="headerlink" href="#using-the-special-export-tool" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
 <p>You can actually use <strong>Special:Export</strong> to retrieve pages from <em>any</em> Wiki site. On the German Wiktionary, however, the tool is labelled <strong>Spezial:Exportieren</strong>, but it works the same way.</p>
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 <p><strong>Exporting Pages from Any Wiki Site</strong></p>
 <p>To access the XML content of the page titled "Austria" from English Wikipedia, you can use the following Python code. When you press <code>run</code>, it will open the export link in your default browser:</p>
+<div class="tabbed-set tabbed-alternate" data-tabs="1:2"><input checked="checked" id="exec-2--__tabbed_1_1" name="exec-2--__tabbed_1" type="radio" /><input id="exec-2--__tabbed_1_2" name="exec-2--__tabbed_1" type="radio" /><div class="tabbed-labels"><label for="exec-2--__tabbed_1_1">Source</label><label for="exec-2--__tabbed_1_2">Result</label></div>
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 <span class="n">url</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">f</span><span class="s1">&#39;https://</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">domain</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s1">/wiki/Special:Export/</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s1">&#39;</span>
 <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">url</span><span class="p">)</span>
 </code></pre></div></td></tr></table></div>
+</div>
+<div class="tabbed-block">
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 <p><strong>Exporting Pages from the German Wiktionary</strong></p>
-<p>For the German Wiktionary, the export tool uses <code>Spezial:Exportieren</code> instead of <code>Special:Export</code>. You can use similar Python code to open the export link for the page titled "schön" (German for "beautiful"):</p>
+<p>For the German Wiktionary, the export tool uses <code>Spezial:Exportieren</code> instead of <code>Special:Export</code>. You can use similar Python code to open the export link for the page titled "hoch" (German for "high"):</p>
+<div class="tabbed-set tabbed-alternate" data-tabs="1:2"><input checked="checked" id="exec-3--__tabbed_1_1" name="exec-3--__tabbed_1" type="radio" /><input id="exec-3--__tabbed_1_2" name="exec-3--__tabbed_1" type="radio" /><div class="tabbed-labels"><label for="exec-3--__tabbed_1_1">Source</label><label for="exec-3--__tabbed_1_2">Result</label></div>
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 <span class="n">domain</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;de.wiktionary.org&#39;</span>
 <span class="n">url</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">f</span><span class="s1">&#39;https://</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">domain</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s1">/wiki/Spezial:Exportieren/</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s1">&#39;</span>
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+<h2 id="fetching-xml-data-with-requests">Fetching XML Data with <code>requests</code><a class="headerlink" href="#fetching-xml-data-with-requests" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
 <p>To programmatically fetch and download XML content, you can use Python's <code>requests</code> library. This example shows how to build the URL, make a request, and get the XML content of a Wiktionary page by its title.</p>
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+<span class="normal">12</span></pre></div></td><td class="code"><div><pre><span></span><code><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">fetch</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">):</span>
     <span class="c1"># Construct the URL for the XML export of the given page title</span>
     <span class="n">url</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">f</span><span class="s1">&#39;https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Spezial:Exportieren/</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s1">&#39;</span>
 
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     <span class="c1"># Return the XML content of the requested page</span>
-    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">resp</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">content</span>
+    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">resp</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span>
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-<p>Next, let us attempt to retrieve the XML content for the page titled "hoch" and print the initial 500 bytes for a glimpse of the XML content displayed in the <code>Result</code> tab.</p>
-<div class="tabbed-set tabbed-alternate" data-tabs="1:2"><input checked="checked" id="exec-4--__tabbed_1_1" name="exec-4--__tabbed_1" type="radio" /><input id="exec-4--__tabbed_1_2" name="exec-4--__tabbed_1" type="radio" /><div class="tabbed-labels"><label for="exec-4--__tabbed_1_1">Source</label><label for="exec-4--__tabbed_1_2">Result</label></div>
+<p>Next, let us attempt to retrieve the XML content for the page titled "hoch" and print the initial 500 bytes for a glimpse of the XML content.</p>
+<div class="tabbed-set tabbed-alternate" data-tabs="1:2"><input checked="checked" id="exec-5--__tabbed_1_1" name="exec-5--__tabbed_1" type="radio" /><input id="exec-5--__tabbed_1_2" name="exec-5--__tabbed_1" type="radio" /><div class="tabbed-labels"><label for="exec-5--__tabbed_1_1">Source</label><label for="exec-5--__tabbed_1_2">Result</label></div>
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+<span class="go">    &lt;generator&gt;MediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.17&lt;/generator&gt;</span>
+<span class="go">    &lt;case&gt;case-sensitive&lt;/case&gt;</span>
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