Discover interesting connections starting from a Wikipedia article.

This is a Node.js library and command-line tool to see connections from Wikipedia articles. For example, you can use it to see the Getting to Philosophy effect, but it can do much more.

$ npm install -g wikilope 

On the command line

wikilope -l <language code> -a <article name>

Or using a script

constWikilope=require('../index.js');constlope=newWikilope({article : '<article name>',language : '<language>'});lope.run();

The wikilope command has a lot of options you can use for interesting queries:

Usage: wikilope [options] <cmd> [env] Options: -a, --article <article> Wikipedia article name -c, --count <count> Number of links to fetch -f, --format <format> Output format: 'tree' (default) or 'terms' --json Output in JSON format -l, --language <language> Language code for Wikipedia edition (e.g. 'en', 'nl', 'fr') --no-redirects Don't follow redirects --no-cache Don't cache entries -r, --recursive Also crawl up from results -s, --steps <steps> How many steps should we go up? -v, --verbose -h, --help output usage information

Here's the classical Getting to Philosopy effect, starting from the English language Wikipedia version of the 'Amsterdam' article.

wikilope -l en -a Amsterdam 

Let's not just get the first link, but the first three links. And let's use the German Wikipedia.

wikilope -l de -a Amsterdam -c 3 

To also get the links from the articles you find use the recursive (-r) option.

wikilope -l en -a Elephant -r 

Get the same data, but in JSON format

wikilope -l en -a Elephant -r --json 

To limit the number of articles we're getting we could use the step (-s) option. We're also getting the first three links and doing it recursive.

wikilope -l en -a Blockchain -rs 5 -c 3 

Use this module for Node.js like this:

constWikilope=require('../index.js');constlope=newWikilope({article : 'Amsterdam',language : 'en'});lope.run();

All options of the command line version have equivalent arguments in the Wikilope constructor:

{// Class option : Command line flagarticle : article,count : count,debug : verbose,followRedirects : redirects,format : format,json : json,language : language,recursive : recursive,steps : steps,useCache : cache}

MIT © Hay Kranen