WikipediaJS - accessing Wikipedia article data through Javascript

Posted on 10 September 2012 by Rufus Pollock

WikipediaJS is a simple JS library for accessing information in Wikipedia articles such as dates, places, abstracts etc.

The library is the work of Labs member Rufus Pollock. In essence, it is a small wrapper around the data and APIs of the DBPedia project and it is they who have done all the heavy lifting of extracting structured data from Wikipedia - huge credit and thanks to DBPedia folks!

Demo and Examples

A demo is included and you can see some examples of the library in action at the following links:

http://okfnlabs.org/wikipediajs/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings
http://okfnlabs.org/wikipediajs/?url=?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitas_AB
http://okfnlabs.org/wikipediajs/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England
http://okfnlabs.org/wikipediajs/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN

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WikipediaJS source code is on github

One of the reasons for creating WikipediaJS is that we think it can be useful in Timeliner and other apps as a way to quickly add new items to your timeline.