Wikipedia API

Package: wikipedia-api
Author: Dominex Macedon
License: MIT

A lightweight, zero-dependency Wikipedia API client for Node.js and Starlight.
Designed for searching, reading, and exploring Wikipedia content using clean async APIs.

Features

• Search Wikipedia articles
• Fetch article summaries
• Retrieve full plain-text pages
• Get a random article
• List available language translations
• Extract image titles
• Get article categories
• Search + summary combined helper
• No dependencies

Installation

npm install wikipedia-api

Usage

Importing

import {
  search,
  summary,
  page,
  random,
  languages,
  images,
  categories,
  searchAndSummary
} from "wikipedia-api";

🔍 Search Articles

const results = await search("Starlight programming language", 5);

console.log(results);

Output

[
  {
    title: "Starlight",
    snippet: "Starlight is ...",
    pageid: 123456
  }
]

Article Summary

const info = await summary("JavaScript");
console.log(info.extract);

Full Page Content

const article = await page("Node.js");
console.log(article.content);

Random Article

const randomArticle = await random();
console.log(randomArticle.title);

Available Languages

const langs = await languages("JavaScript");
console.log(langs);

Output

[
  { lang: "es", title: "JavaScript" },
  { lang: "fr", title: "JavaScript" }
]

Images Used in Article

const imgs = await images("Node.js");
console.log(imgs);

Note: Returns image titles only (file names).

Categories

const cats = await categories("Node.js");
console.log(cats);

Search + Summary (Combined Helper)

const summaries = await searchAndSummary("Programming language", 3);
console.log(summaries);

Design Philosophy

• Minimal and readable
• Uses official Wikipedia APIs
• Async / await friendly
• Works with Starlight and Node.js
• No external libraries

Notes

• This package retrieves public Wikipedia data only
• Intended for CLI tools, scripts, bots, and learning projects
• Subject to Wikipedia API usage limits

Resources

• Wikipedia API Docs: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
• REST API Docs: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/

License

MIT © Dominex Macedon