Browse Engine

Browse Engine is a Wikipedia-only search engine written in Node.js.

It does not provide a frontend or HTML interface.

Features

• Wikipedia-only search
• Search result ranking
• Result caching
• Article lookup
• Multiple Wikipedia languages
• JSON output
• No external npm dependencies

Requirements

Node.js 18 or newer.

Installation

Clone or create the project:

browse-engine/

Then run:

npm start -- JavaScript

Or:

node index.js JavaScript

Example

node index.js JavaScript

The engine returns JSON containing:

• Query
• Wikipedia source
• Result count
• Article title
• Wikipedia URL
• Snippet
• Page ID
• Ranking score

Architecture

User Query
    |
    v
Browse Engine
    |
    v
Search Module
    |
    v
Wikipedia API
    |
    v
Ranking
    |
    v
Cache
    |
    v
JSON Results

Language

The default Wikipedia language is English.

The engine can be configured:

const BrowseEngine = require("./src/engine");

const engine = new BrowseEngine({
    language: "id"
});

This makes Browse Engine use Indonesian Wikipedia.

License

MIT