wikigeocode

This tiny module performs the geocode of an administrative location (town, city, county, state, country, etc) using the wikimedia APIs, returning the wikipedia page title and the lat, lon coordinates if available, caching the results for an hour. For example:

> const {fetchSearchGeo} = require('wikigeocode')
> fetchSearchGeo('bogota').then(x => console.log(x))
> { pageid: 211271,
  ns: 0,
  title: 'Bogotá',
  coordinates:
   [ { lat: 4.71111111,
       lon: -74.07222222,
       primary: '',
       globe: 'earth' } ] }

The module only has an external node-fetch dependency to query the wikimedia APIs and Jest as dev dependency to run the tests.

Install

You can install with [npm]:

$ npm install --save wikigeocode

Usage

The module provides two main functions: fetchGeo to get the coordinates property from a wikipedia geographical entry and fetchExtract to get the summary (extract) of that particular page:

> const {fetchGeo, fetchExtra} = require('wikigeocode')
> fetchGeo('dublin').then(x => console.log(x))
> { pageid: 8504,
  ns: 0,
  title: 'Dublin',
  coordinates: [ { lat: 53.35, lon: -6.26666667, primary: '', globe: 'earth' } ] }

> fetchExtract('dublin').then(x => console.log(x))
>{ pageid: 8504,
  ns: 0,
  title: 'Dublin',
  extract: 'Dublin (; Irish: Baile Átha Cliath [ˈbˠalʲə aːhə ˈclʲiə; ˌbʲlʲaː ˈclʲiə]) is the capital of, and largest city in, Ireland ... '}

The previous two functions require the exact wikipedia page title. If you don't know the exact entry, you can use fetchSearchGeo and fetchSearchExtract to get the closest match to your query:

> const {fetchSearchGeo, fetchSearchExtra} = require('wikigeocode')
> fetchSearchGeo('londonderry').then(x => console.log(x))
> { pageid: 9055,
  ns: 0,
  title: 'Derry',
  coordinates: [ { lat: 54.9958, lon: -7.3074, primary: '', globe: 'earth' } ] }

> fetchSearchExtract('londonderry').then(x => console.log(x))
>{ pageid: 9055,
  ns: 0,
  title: 'Derry',
  extract: 'Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland. ...'}

License

Copyright © 2019, Juan Convers. Released under the MIT License.