get-random-article

Gets a random Wikipedia article in Wikitext (instead of HTML).

Installation

npm install get-random-article

Usage

var getRandomArticle = require('get-random-article');
var opts = {
  language: 'en'
};
getRandomArticle(opts, logArticle);

function logArticle(error, articleText) {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
  else {
    console.log(articleText)
  }
}

Output:

{{italic title}}
The '''''Bauer Lexicon''''' is among the most highly respected dictionaries of [[Biblical Greek]].<ref>Rykle Borger, "Remarks of an Outsider about Bauer's Wörterbuch, BAGD, BDAG, and Their Textual Basis," Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Frederick W. Danker, Bernard A. Taylor (et al. eds.) pp. 32–47.</ref> The producers of the German forerunner are Preuschen and Bauer. The English edition is '''''A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature''''' (the Third Edition was published in 2001 by [[The University of Chicago Press]]; ISBN 0226039331).

== History ==

The origin may be traced to Preuschen's ''Vollständiges Griechisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments und der übrigen urchristlichen Literatur'' (1910).<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1515/zatw.1908.28.4.U | title =  Vollständiges Griechisch-Deu
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If you want to use a Wikipedia that is not on wikipedia.org, you need to specify wikipediaProtocol and wikipediaDomain params in the opts. e.g.:

{
  wikipediaProtocol: 'http',
  wikipediaDomain: 'bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net'
}

There is also a command line utility, get-specific-article.js, for grabbing specific articles in this repo. The first parammeter is the topic to get, and the second is the language (e.g. "en", "es", "simple", etc.) for the Wikipedia to retrieve the article from.

node tools/get-specific-article.js "foundation (nonprofit)" simple

Output:

A '''foundation''' is a kind of [[company]] set up to carry out [[charity (practice)|charity]] or [[research]] work. A foundation is usually [[endowed]], which means it is given a large sum of [[money]] to do its work. An example is the [[Rockefeller Foundation]]. The [[Rockefeller family]] made their money from [[banking]] and [[oil]] and their family foundation is endowed with a very great sum of money. The people running the foundation think of ways to use the money to help charities, the arts, or whatever they like.

Another example is the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]]. Bill Gates made a [[Wealth|fortune]] from [[Microsoft]]. He and his wife now spend nearly all their time giving away the money he has made. They give it to [[project]]s like [[education]] in the [[United States]] and treating [[AIDS]] in [[Third World]] countries.

==Other websites==
{{commons cat-inline|Foundations (organizations)}}

Tests

Run tests with make test.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Jim Kang

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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