wikipedia-summary 📚

Wikipedia API wrapper for Node.js — summaries, search, random articles, On This Day events, multi-language support.

🚀 What's New in v2.0.0

• search() — Search Wikipedia and get matched articles
• getRandomArticle() — Discover random Wikipedia articles
• getOnThisDay() — Historical events, births, deaths for today's date
• getMultipleSummaries() — Fetch multiple topics at once
• Thumbnail & image URLs — Both original and thumbnail images
• Last modified date — Article freshness info
• Input validation — Better error messages

📦 Installation

npm install wikipedia-summary

📋 Usage

Get Summary

const { getSummary } = require("wikipedia-summary");

const article = await getSummary("Node.js");
console.log(article.title);       // "Node.js"
console.log(article.extract);     // Full summary text
console.log(article.pageUrl);     // Wikipedia page URL
console.log(article.imageUrl);    // Main image URL
console.log(article.thumbnailUrl); // Thumbnail URL
console.log(article.lastModified); // Last edit timestamp

Multi-language Support

const { getSummary } = require("wikipedia-summary");

// Turkish
const tr = await getSummary("Istanbul", "tr");

// German
const de = await getSummary("Berlin", "de");

// Japanese
const ja = await getSummary("Tokyo", "ja");

Search Wikipedia

const { search } = require("wikipedia-summary");

const results = await search("artificial intelligence", "en", 5);
results.forEach(r => {
  console.log(`${r.title} - ${r.snippet}`);
  console.log(`  ${r.pageUrl}`);
});

Random Article

const { getRandomArticle } = require("wikipedia-summary");

const random = await getRandomArticle();
console.log(`${random.title}: ${random.extract}`);

// Random article in Turkish
const randomTR = await getRandomArticle("tr");

On This Day

const { getOnThisDay } = require("wikipedia-summary");

const events = await getOnThisDay("en", "all");
events.forEach(event => {
  console.log(`[${event.type}] ${event.year || ''} - ${event.text}`);
});

// Filter by type: "selected", "births", "deaths", "events", "holidays"
const births = await getOnThisDay("en", "births");

Multiple Summaries

const { getMultipleSummaries } = require("wikipedia-summary");

const topics = ["JavaScript", "Python", "Rust", "Go"];
const summaries = await getMultipleSummaries(topics);

summaries.forEach(s => {
  if (s.error) {
    console.log(`${s.title}: ${s.error}`);
  } else {
    console.log(`${s.title}: ${s.extract.substring(0, 100)}...`);
  }
});

📡 API

| Function | Description | |----------|-------------| | getSummary(topic, lang?) | Get article summary | | search(query, lang?, limit?) | Search Wikipedia articles | | getRandomArticle(lang?) | Get a random article | | getOnThisDay(lang?, type?) | Get On This Day events | | getMultipleSummaries(topics[], lang?) | Batch fetch summaries |

Language Support

All functions accept a language code as parameter. Examples: "en", "tr", "de", "fr", "es", "ja", "zh", "pt", "ru", "ar".

📄 License

MIT © Utku Berkay Koç