render-wikipedia-article

Render Wiki Markup articles from Wikipedia as HTML.

Warning: I don't intend to maintain this project. It was meant as an experiment to render Wikitext to HTML. This is harder than you might think:

• Wiki markup has crazy syntax with lots of problems
• Parsoid is a huge, hacky piece of software
  • it does network requests deep down in the parsing logic
  • it is built as a monolithic web service
  • it takes about 30s to convert the page for Barack Obama
  • it is way too large
• wtf_wikipedia is simple and lightweight, but
  • it uses regular expressions to parse, which is error-prone and limited
  • it fails to parse common items of Wikipedia articles
  • it doesn't give you the page hierarchy
• on the long run, Wikimedia seems to move to HTML as canonical format

I settled with the solution to fetch the mobile HTML directly.

Installing

npm install derhuerst/render-wikipedia-article

Usage

const render = require('render-wikipedia-article')

render(someWikitext)
.then((html) => {
	console.log(html)
})
.catch(console.error)

Contributing

If you have a question or have difficulties using render-wikipedia-article, please double-check your code and setup first. If you think you have found a bug or want to propose a feature, refer to the issues page.