Wikiquote

Some handy methods for Wikiquote

Installation

npm install --save wikiquote

Usage

wikiquote
  .searchPeople('steve jobs')
  .then(page => wikiquote.getRandomQuote(page.title))
  .then(quote => console.log(quote))

You always have to keep pushing to innovate. Dylan could have
sung protest songs forever and probably made a lot of money,
but he didn’t. He had to move on, and when he did, by going
electric in 1965, he alienated a lot of people. His 1966 Europe
tour was his greatest…. The Beatles were the same way. They kept
evolving, moving, refining their art. That’s what I’ve always
tried to do — keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you are
not busy being born, you’re busy dying.

As quoted in Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson, p. 570

API

search(query, options)

query

The search terms used to query wikiquote

Type: string

Examples:

• Person Name
• Book Title
• Movie Title

searchByTitle(query, options)

query

The search terms used to query page titles

Type: string

searchPeople(query, options)

query

The search terms used to query people

Type: string

getPageSections(pageTitle, options)

pageTitle

The title of the wikiquote page

Type: string

getSectionContent(pageTitle, sectionIndex, options)

pageTitle

The title of the wikiquote page

Type: string

getRandomQuote(pageTitle, options)

pageTitle

The title of the wikiquote page

Type: string

list(pageTitle, options)

List all the quotes on a given page

Type: string

options

You can also provide a set of options to each method to customize the query and results.

Type: object

Example:

{
  language: 'en'
}

options.language

The language code to search with

Type: string

For a list of available language codes see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote#List_of_Wikiquotes

License

MIT © Forrest Desjardins