History Scraper (JS)

About

Scraper that searches for events, births and deaths that occurred during a specific day of history from Wikipedia.

You may check out the ruby gem version here.

Usage

1. Run npm i history-scraper or yarn add history-scraper

2. Add this to your code:

const scraper = require('history-scraper');

scraper(optionsJson)
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

3. Run your code.

optionsJson may have the following key/values:

| key | description | example value | default value | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------|---------------|--------------------------------| | delay | ms delay between successive requests | 200 | 50 | | outputDir | name of the file to write the results | data.json | none (no file will be written) | | logging | whether to show the algorithm's progress or not | true | false |

example options:

{ delay: 50, outputDir: 'data.json', logging: true }

Contributing

1. Fork this repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'add my feature')
4. Push to your feature branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request