Grab the first paragraph of any Wikipedia page
Use it programmatically with JavaScript to fetch JSON, or use the command line interface (CLI) to look stuff up from your terminal.
Install it:
npm install wikipedia-tldrUse it in JavaScript:
const tldr = require('wikipedia-tldr')
tldr('somatology').then(result => {
console.log(result)
})The result looks like this:
{
query: "pomology",
type: "standard",
title: "Pomology",
displaytitle: "Pomology",
thumbnail: {
source: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Poire_Willermoz.jpg/241px-Poire_Willermoz.jpg",
width: 241,
height: 320
},
originalimage: {
source: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Poire_Willermoz.jpg",
width: 644,
height: 856
},
lang: "en",
description: "branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruit",
extract: "Pomology is a branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruit. The denomination fruticulture—introduced from Romance languages —is also used.",
extract_html: "<p><b>Pomology</b> is a branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruit. The denomination <b>fruticulture</b>—introduced from Romance languages —is also used.</p>"
}If no result is found, null is returned.
The default language is English en, but you can specify a different language
with an optional secondar argument to the function:
tldr('muñeca', 'es')For available language codes, see the List of Wikipedias.
npm i -g wikipedia-tldr && wikipedia-tldr pomology
or use npx
$ npx wikipedia-tldr zymology
npx: installed 62 in 4.301s
English
Alternative forms
zumology (dated)
Etymology
From zymo- + -logy.
Noun
zymology (uncountable)
(zymurgy) A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation.
The science of or knowledge concerning fermentation.
Translations
References
zymology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914npm install
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