A parser for Wikipedia Inforbox, as described in Wikipedia help page:

An infobox is a fixed-format table designed to be added to the top right-hand corner of articles to consistently present a summary of some unifying aspect that the articles share and sometimes to improve navigation to other interrelated articles.

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Fork the repo and do whatever you can to help!

Features

It’s still on development, it needs to support more markup templates.

  • Get Wikipedia Infobox by keyword
  • Support keyword redirection
  • Convert Wikipedia Markup text to JSON text

Installation

npm install wiki-infobox-parser

Usage

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var wikiParser = require('wiki-infobox-parser');

wikiParser('france', function(err, result) {
  if (err) {
		console.error(err.message);
	} else {
		console.log(result);
	}
});

Result

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The parsed result is

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{
    "name": "Node.js",
    "logo": "frameless",
    "author": "Ryan Dahl",
    "developer": "[https://github.com/ry/node/blob/master/AUTHORS Node.js Developers], Joyent, [https://github.com/joyent/node/graphs/contributors GitHub Contributors]",
    "operating system": "OS X, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Microsoft Windows (older versions require Cygwin), webOS, NonStop OS",
    "status": "Active",
    "released": "2009/05/27",
    "latest release version": "4.2.1",
    "latest release date": "2015/10/13",
    "programming language": "C, C++, JavaScript",
    "genre": "Event-driven networking",
    "license": "MIT",
    "website": "http://nodejs.org"
}

How to contribute

Todo

  • Support map caption
  • Support link & free link
  • Support picture
  • Support template: fake clarify
  • Support template: fake citation needed
  • Support template: fake elucidate
  • Support template: fake heading
  • Support template: fake notes and references
  • Support template: dummy ref
  • Support template: dummy backlink
  • Support template: dummy footnote
  • Support template: break
  • Support template: break|5
  • Support template: clear
  • Support template: clear|left
  • Support template: clear|right
  • Support template: plainlist
  • Support template: startflatlist
  • Support template: flatlist
  • Support template: hlist|first item|second item|third item|…
  • Support template: bulleted list |item1 |item2 |…
  • Support template: pagelist
  • Support template: nowrap
  • Support template: italics
  • Support template: smallcaps|small caps
  • Support template: pad|4.0em

Issue tracker

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Don’t hesitate to contact me when you have any issue or idea about this parser, both PivotalTracker and Github issue are welcomed!

Tests

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make test

Before sending a PR please add corresponding tests, thanks!

Contributors

Reference