https://github.com/cloventt/qwiki-cite

A browser extension that instantly generates a Wikipedia citation template for the current web page.
https://github.com/cloventt/qwiki-cite

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A browser extension that instantly generates a Wikipedia citation template for the current web page.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cloventt/qwiki-cite
• Owner: cloventt
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2023-12-27T21:19:58.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-30T21:57:13.000Z (8 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-30T22:28:58.536Z (8 months ago)
• Language: TypeScript
• Size: 975 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# QWiki-Cite

**[Install on Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qwiki-cite/)**

![](screenshot.png)

This is a tiny browser extension that can automatically generate a Wikipedia `{{citation}}`

template for whatever page you are currently on.

## Features

* 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](https://schema.org/) metadata blobs

* [DCMI](https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/#section-2) metadata tags

* a bunch of common HTML `` tags

* other HTML elements

## Compatibility

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.

## Development

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

```