https://github.com/edsu/wikichanges

a NodeJS library for monitoring changes on Wikipedia sites
https://github.com/edsu/wikichanges

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a NodeJS library for monitoring changes on Wikipedia sites

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/edsu/wikichanges
• Owner: edsu
• Created: 2012-06-22T02:19:06.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-08-14T12:10:32.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-09T22:32:55.389Z (2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://npmjs.org/package/wikichanges
• Size: 45.9 KB
• Stars: 70
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 18
• Open Issues: 7
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  • Readme: README.md

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wikichanges

===========

**Note: it is now possible to get the Wikipedia update stream easily from Wikipedia's [EventStreams](https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Platform/EventStreams). I think there's so much tooling around the old IRC update channels that they haven't been turned off yet, but maybe someday. If you are building something new you should really look at EventStreams!**

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wikichanges is a node.js library for getting an edit stream from the 37 major language Wikipedias. The Wikipedia MediaWiki installations are configured to log changes in  [specific IRC channels](http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels#Raw_feeds). wikichanges joins all these channels, listens for updates, which it then parses, and sends as JavaScript objects to a callback of your choosing. Each change will look something like:

```javascript

{ 

  channel: '#en.wikipedia',

  wikipedia: 'English Wikipedia',

  page: 'Persuasion (novel)',

  pageUrl: 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasion_(novel)',

  url: 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=498770193&oldid=497895763',

  delta: -13,

  comment: '/* Main characters */',

  wikipediaUrl: 'http://en.wikipedia.org',

  user: '108.49.244.224',

  userUrl: 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:108.49.244.224',

  unpatrolled: false,

  newPage: false,

  robot: false,

  anonymous: true,

  namespace: 'Article'

  flag: '',

}

```

Install

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If you aren't on Ubuntu, try to do the equivalent to get your node.js

environment set up, and run a test program:

    % sudo apt-get install nodejs

    % npm install wikichanges

Usage

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Here's a simple example of listening on all Wikipedia channels and printing

out the page that changed along with its URL.

```javascript

var wikichanges = require("wikichanges");

var w = new wikichanges.WikiChanges();

w.listen(function(change) {

  console.log(change.page + " " + change.pageUrl)

});

```

If you would like to listen only on a particular channel or channels 

create the wikichanges object like this:

```javascript

var w = new wikichanges.WikiChanges({wikipedias: ["#fr.wikipedia", "#de.wikipedia"]});

```

By default wikichanges picks a IRC nick of `wikichanges-{hostname}` where 

hostname is the hostname for the computer that your program is running.

If you would like to control the IRC nick used by your program use the 

`ircNickname` option:

```javascript

var w = new wikichanges.WikiChanges({ircNickname: 'super-awesome'})

```

License

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* CC0