Wikipedia Infobox Parser

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.

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

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

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

Result

The parsed result is

{
    "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

• Please check this project on PivatalTracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/1451530
• Github issue: https://github.com/zp-j/wiki-infobox-parser/issues

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

Tests

# Test with a small test cases set
make test

# Test with a full test cases set
# It will take ~2mins, depending on the network
make test-all

Before sending a PR please add corresponding tests, thanks!

Contributors

• Zhipeng Jiang
• Sagar Karira
• Evan Boyle

Reference

• Wikipedia API
• Syntax of Wiki Markup