This is a tiny browser extension that can automatically generate a Wikipedia {{citation}}
template for whatever page you are currently on.
- scrape details of the current page including title, author, published date, etc
- grab the most-recent archive of the page from the Wayback Machine
- escapes reserved characters for you
- quickly copy the template to your clipboard with one button click
- also supports academic journals and books
Scraping is done by looking at the current page and parsing the following sources of metadata:
- schema.org json+ld metadata blobs
- DCMI metadata tags
- a bunch of common HTML
<meta/>tags - other HTML elements
I only bother testing this on Firefox. If you're using Chrome it might work but I don't guarantee it.
Automated tests are included for some websites to check that scraping works as expected on them. The set of supported websites will continue to expand as I develop the extension. Even if a website isn't directly supported, the extension will work on most websites.
This is written in Typescript and packed with Parcel.
Install the project:
yarn install
Watch your local changes and build automatically:
yarn watch
You can then install it in Firefox by going to about:debugging and installing a
temporary extension. Firefox even automatically reloads when you make changes!
Compile and bundle the project:
yarn build
Run unit tests:
yarn test