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https://github.com/ericwindmill/philosphy_finder

A front-end web-crawler in Javascript.
https://github.com/ericwindmill/philosphy_finder

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# [Getting to Philosophy](https://ericwindmill.github.io/philosphy_finder/)
[Getting to Philosophy](https://ericwindmill.github.io/philosphy_finder/) is a Wikipedia web crawler that will count and record the steps it takes to get to Philsophy.

[Check it out here!](https://ericwindmill.github.io/philosphy_finder/)

According to Wikipedia: "Clicking on the first link in the main text of a Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, will usually lead to the Philosophy article. As of February 2016, 97% of all articles in Wikipedia eventually lead to the article Philosophy."

This application automates that process.
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## Technologies
* JavaScript
* Wikipedia API
* Webpack
* Cheerio (lightweight DOM traversal)

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![Screenshot](http://res.cloudinary.com/ericwindmill/image/upload/v1502491540/Screen_Shot_2017-08-11_at_3.44.03_PM_lbppyw.png)