node-wikipedia

node-wikipedia

Node.js wrapper for the Wikipedia API

#Installation

npm install node-wikipedia

#Demo

var wikipedia = require("node-wikipedia");

wikipedia.page.data("Clifford_Brown", { content: true }, function(response) {
	// structured information on the page for Clifford Brown (wikilinks, references, categories, etc.)
});

wikipedia.revisions.all("Miles_Davis", { comment: true }, function(response) {
	// info on each revision made to Miles Davis' page
});

wikipedia.categories.tree(
	"Philadelphia_Phillies",
	function(tree) {
		//nested data on the category page for all Phillies players
	}
);

#Philosophy

The MediaWiki API is wonderfully permissive and horribly documented. This is a lightweight wrapper. In addition to providing a basic interface for making HTTP requests to the API, it bundles some requests so that one needn't bother with pagination and so forth.

#Under the Hood dial.js makes API requests, accepting parameters as an object, options as an object, and a callback.

#License This script is provided free and open-source under the MIT license. If you use it, you are politely encouraged to link to this repo.