Extract famous vermonters and their QIDs from wikipedia
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const wtf = require('wtf_wikipedia') | |
const rp = require('request-promise'); | |
const createCsvWriter = require('csv-writer').createObjectCsvWriter; | |
const csvWriter = createCsvWriter({ | |
path: 'famous_vermonters.csv', | |
header: [ | |
{id: 'qid', title: 'qid'}, | |
{id: 'name', title: 'name'} | |
] | |
}); | |
function parseWikiResponse(resp) { | |
var firstPage = Object.values(resp.query.pages)[0] | |
if ('pageprops' in firstPage) { | |
return firstPage.pageprops.wikibase_item | |
} else { | |
return null | |
} | |
} | |
function getNamesAndQids() { | |
var vermonters = [] | |
var ps = [] | |
wtf.fetch('List_of_people_from_Vermont').then((doc) => { | |
console.log("RUNNING") | |
doc.json().sections.map((section) => { | |
if (/^[A-Z]$/.test(section.title)) { | |
var section_list = [].concat.apply([], section.lists); | |
section_list.map((item) => { | |
var wikiURL = encodeURI(`https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&titles=${item.links[0].page}&format=json`) | |
vermonters.push(item.text) | |
ps.push(rp({ | |
uri: wikiURL, | |
json: true | |
})) | |
}) | |
} | |
}) | |
// https://stackoverflow.com/a/39507833/4355916 | |
return Promise.all(ps) | |
.then((results) => { | |
csvWriter.writeRecords(results.map((e, i) => ( | |
{ | |
"name": vermonters[i], | |
"qid": parseWikiResponse(e) | |
}))) | |
}).catch(err => console.log(err)) | |
}) | |
} | |
getNamesAndQids() |
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