bencooling / wikitable

HTML table scraper for wikipedia or any other site.

wikitable

HTML table scraper for wikipedia or any other site.

0.2.3 API Reference

wikitable(options)

Scrape tables from wikipedia or any webpage, returning in a nested array or object (default) format.

• options
  • url - Required url of the webpage to scrape
  • selector - Optional css selector, defaults to .wikitable
  • format - Optional format either object or array.

// usage:
const url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_names_for_biblical_place_names';
wikitable({ url, format: 'array' })
  .then(data => console.log(data));
/*
  data:
  [ [ [ 'Biblical name', 'Mentioned in', 'Present name', ... ],
      [ 'Adramyttium', 'Acts 27:2', 'Burhaniye', ... ],
  ...
  ] ]
*/