History Scraper (JS)

About

Scraper that searches for events, births and deaths that occurred during a specific day of history from Wikipedia.

You may check out the ruby gem version here.

Usage

1. Run npm i history-scraper or yarn add history-scraper

2. Add this to your code:

const scraper = require('history-scraper');

scraper(optionsJson)
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

3. Run your code.

optionsJson may have the following key/values:

key	description	example value	default value
delay	ms delay between successive requests	200	50
outputDir	name of the file to write the results	data.json	none (no file will be written)
logging	whether to show the algorithm's progress or not	true	false

example options:

{ delay: 50, outputDir: 'data.json', logging: true }

Contributing

1. Fork this repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'add my feature')
4. Push to your feature branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request