CS Wiki

A JSON representation of terms and definitions from Wikipedia's Glossary of Computer Science, which information is available with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Usage

Here are the objects and types available for import from this module.

// Entries scraped from Wikipedia's CS glossary
export type WikiEntry = {
  term: string;
  definitions: string[];
};

// An array of all the entries that have terms and definitions
export const csWiki: Array<WikiEntry>;

// Returns an entry from the csWiki based on a pseudo-random algorithm with today's date as the seed
export function getCSWordOfDay(): WikiEntry;

// Returns an entry if found (case insenstive), else returns undefined
export function getWikiEntryByTerm(term: string): WikiEntry | undefined;

Development

# Executes main.js which scrapes Wikipedia and stores the glossary in cs-wiki.json
npm run build
# Test functions in ./lib/* and index.ts
npm test

Both of the above commands get executed precommit with husky.