Web Scraper for Wikipedia Pages
Collect following data sources from Wikipedia:
- timezone
- Source: List of tz database time zones
- Actual Fields:
- CountryCode
- Coordinates
- TimeZone
- Comments
- UTC offset
- UTC DST offset
- Notes
- Extended Fields:
- CountryCodeISO
- CountryCodeISOWiki
- Link
- OffsetUTCMinutes
- OffsetUTCDSTMinutes
Module provide following sections for each data source:
scraper: Scraper is responsible to parse source page from Wikipedia and provide result in callback.exporter: Exporter will use scraper to collect data and expose different export types such as JSON or CSV.
Installation
Install using npm:
$ npm install webscraper-wikipedia
Usage
Please refer to ./examples/*.js for scraper samples and ./generators/*.js for exporter samples.
Data
Generated data are located in ./data/ folder. To refresh data use generators located in ./generators/ folder. For instance to refresh data for timezone database use following command:
$ cd ./generators/ ; node timezone.js
To do list
Enhance following sources:
- timezone
- Convert Coordinates from ISO 6709 to Longitude and Latitude
- Fill missed fields based on linked Timezones
Add new sources:
- countries - List of countries in ISO 3166-1