WikiJs

WikiJs is a node.js library which serves as an interface to Wikipedia (or any MediaWiki).

What can it do?

Search wiki articles
Fetch article content
Find all links/images/categories in a article page
Get parsed information about articles
Find articles by geographical location
and much more!

Documentation

https://dijs.github.io/wiki

Install

npm install wikijs

Build yourself

You can run these commands in order to build and test WikiJs:

git clone git@github.com:dijs/wiki.git
cd wiki
npm install
npm run build
npm test

Usage

import wiki from 'wikijs';
// const wiki = require('wikijs').default;

wiki().page('Batman')
	.then(page => page.info('alterEgo'))
	.then(console.log); // Bruce Wayne

Usage with webpack

In order for webpack to build wikijs properly, you must add an option to your webpack configuration file. Documentation

externals: {
  "isomorphic-fetch": "fetch"
}

Parsing Wiki Infobox Data

The code Wikipedia uses for infobox data is strange and complex. So I have split the parsing code into another library. You can find it here.

We not only parse out the information, but also try to transform the data into a convenient structure for data processing.

Contribute!

I always welcome help. Please just stick to the lint rules and write tests with each feature/fix.

triestpa / wiki