wiki-stream

An automated explorer of the vast river that is Wikipedia.

usage

Specify a title of a wikipedia page, and wikistream will 'click' a random link on the page to another page, and repeat the process.

wikistream Circle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/circle
circle...

links to foci...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(geometry)

...

The 'swimming' continues until you reach full circle (i.e. Finding a page that has been found before), until there is an error (sadly this happens quite a lot), or until you hit 'ctrl c'.

why?

I don't really know. The program was inspired by the 'wikiwar' game people play, and the fact that clicking the first link outside of parentheses on a Wikipedia article always leads to the philosophy page.

I don't really know.

dependencies

Don't panic! These are all managed by NPM.

• cheerio works like jQuery on HTTP data. Very cool and easy.

• request makes HTTP requests. Simple as.