wikipedia-data-fetcher/routeService.js

A simple Node.js API to fetch Wikipedia page summaries and detailed information.

const axios = require("axios");
exports.searchData = async (Search) => {
    try {
        const query = Search;
        const response = await axios.get(`https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/${encodeURIComponent(query)}`);
        const detailsResponse = await axios.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php", {
            params: {
                action: "query",
                prop: "extracts|info|links|revisions",
                explaintext: true,
                titles: query,
                format: "json",
                inprop: "url",
                rvprop: "timestamp|user"
            }
        });
        const page = Object.values(detailsResponse.data.query.pages)[0];
        const infoboxResponse = await axios.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php", {
            params: {
                action: "query",
                prop: "revisions",
                rvprop: "content",
                rvsection: 0,
                titles: query,
                format: "json",
                formatversion: 2
            }
        });
        const infoboxData = infoboxResponse.data.query.pages[0]?.revisions?.[0]?.content || "No infobox found";
        return {
            status: 1,
            title: response.data.title,
            description: response.data.extract,
            full_content: page.extract || "Content not available",
            thumbnail: response.data.thumbnail?.source || null,
            full_url: page.fullurl,
            last_edit: page.revisions?.[0]?.timestamp || "N/A",
            last_editor: page.revisions?.[0]?.user || "Unknown",
            links: page.links?.map(link => link.title) || [],
            infobox: infoboxData,
        };
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
        
        return { status: 500, message: "Internal Server Error",error};
    }
};