Assuming the user is at the Wikipedia article for Wild Yak .
What’s the lowest number of clicks to get to the article for the Phil McGraw ?
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Write a program that can take the URLs of two Wikipedia pages and output the minimum number of clicks to get from one to the other.
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Your program should be runnable one the command line like this:
$ my_program ‘Wild yak’ ‘Phil McGraw’ -
The program’s output should include each link that needs to be clicked to reach the final destination of Phil McGraw.
Technical Constraints
- None
Our solution will use Python and Bash with cli serving as the interface to produce the results. Work will be done as a collective using slack as a medium of communication and git as a means of hosting and testing against the use case.
Technical Challenges
- Navigating to the page and generating the proper link to the end page
- Scrapping all active links on pages and storing them
- Optimization of use case and performance