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wiki-crawler

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.

Installation

npm install wiki-crawler

Usage

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
})

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 have title and description inturn

License

MIT