An automated explorer of the vast river that is Wikipedia.
Specify a title of a wikipedia page, and wikistream will 'click' a random link on the page to another page, and repeat the process.
wikistream Circle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/circle
circle...
links to foci...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(geometry)
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The 'swimming' continues until you reach full circle (i.e. Finding a page that has been found before), until there is an error (sadly this happens quite a lot), or until you hit 'ctrl c'.
I don't really know. The program was inspired by the 'wikiwar' game people play, and the fact that clicking the first link outside of parentheses on a Wikipedia article always leads to the philosophy page.
I don't really know.
Don't panic! These are all managed by NPM.
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cheerioworks like jQuery on HTTP data. Very cool and easy. -
requestmakes HTTP requests. Simple as.