A search and crawler program for Wikipedia articles. Search the articles in wikipedia, get the results or get the page content if the keyword is page itself.
npm install wiki-crawler
This is very simple library. Just initiate it and use crawl
function. It returns promise back
var crawler = require('wiki-crawler')
crawler.crawl(string.search).then((data) => {
// data contains the result
})
data contains following information
-
type: search || page
it contains the type of data. If the result is actual search result, it contains search, else if it is a page instead, it contains page -
title
: if the result is page, it contains title -
description
: if the result is page, it contains description -
results
: if the result is search result, it contains all the results(array). Each item does havetitle
anddescription
inturn
MIT