wikidparse

Fast and lightweight parser for Wikitionary pages

Wikitionary endpoint : https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php

How to use

1. Install the package
``
npm install wikidparse
`
2. Import the parser in your code
`
import parsePage from 'wikidparse'
`
3. Pass fetched html page to parsePage function
`
parsePage(html-string)
`

Example

`
import parsePage from 'wikidparse'
import fetch from 'node-fetch'

const ENDPOINT = 'https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&prop=text&page=';
const WORD = 'cat';
let URL = ENDPOINT + WORD;

fetch(URL)
.then(response=>response.json())
.then(responseInJson=>{
let html = responseInJson.parse.text['*'];
let output = parsePage(html);
})
`

$3

`
{
"English": {
"Etymology 1": {
"Alternative forms": {},
"Noun": {
"1": {
"1": "A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. ",
"2": "Any similar animal of the family Felidae, which includes lions, tigers, bobcats, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, caracals, lynxes, and other such non-domesticated species.",
"type": "An animal of the family Felidae:"
},
"2": "(uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.",
"3": {
"1": "(offensive) A spiteful or angry woman. ",
"2": "An enthusiast or player of jazz.",
"3": "(slang) A person (usually male).",
"4": "(slang) A prostitute. ",
"type": "A person:"
},
"4": "(nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.",
"5": "(chiefly nautical) Short for cat-o'-nine-tails.",
"6": "(archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in \"catboat\").",
"7": {
"1": "(archaic, countable) The trap in that game.",
"type": "(archaic, uncountable) The game of trap ball."
},
"8": "(archaic) The pointed piece of wood that is struck in the game of tipcat."
}
}
}
}
``

Future updates

1. Support for parse from non-api wikitionary pages like : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat
2. Parse media files
3. CommonJS module support