wikinet

Visualize how pages on wikipedia are connected (up to 3 degrees of depth).

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Run with docker

1. install docker-compose.
2. create .env file with the required env variables defined bellow
3. run the app with the following command: docker-compose up

Running manually

In the project directory, you can run:

1. Install dependencies with npm i or yarn install

2. Run server app with npm start or yarn start

Setup environment vars

Provide mysql database credentials manually:

DB_HOST = localhost
DB_PORT = 3306
DB_USER = someuser
DB_NAME = databasename
DB_PASSWORD = yourpassword

Cli commands

• List of available commands: node src/bin/cli --help

• Start with this command. Scrapes all neighbours from given page url: node src/bin/cli scrape --link <url>

• Scrapes 3 degrees from given page url (breath first search):node src/bin/cli bfs --initial <url>

• Scrapes degrees from given url (depth first scrape):node src/bin/cli dbs --initial <wiki-link> --degrees <num>