random-wiki-batch

random-wiki-batch

Get a specified number of random Wikipedia articles. Returns a Promise consisting of an array of random articles from Wikipedia using the MediaWiki API with their titles, pageid, and content.

The content appears under the revisions key of an article as raw wikitext. Check out txtwiki.js for parsing wikitext as plaintext.

Install

$ npm install --save random-wiki-batch

Usage

const randomWikiBatch = require('random-wiki-batch');

// If no arguments passed, randomWikiBatch defaults to 10 random articles
const randomArticles = randomWikiBatch(3);

randomArticles.then(articles => console.log(articles));
// [ { pageid: 1442049,
//     ns: 0,
//     title: 'International Center of Photography',
//     revisions: [ [Object] ] },
//   { pageid: 51440676,
//     ns: 0,
//     title: 'Basti Azeem',
//     revisions: [ [Object] ] },
//   { pageid: 53745028,
//     ns: 0,
//     title: 'Gold Star Families Memorial and Park',
//     revisions: [ [Object] ] } ]

License

MIT