/node-wikimon

A Wikipedia Event Stream (public stream avail at: https://wikimon.glitch.me)

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Wikimon

Live event stream of wikipedia updates (a spinoff of hatnote/wikimon) deployed to glitch.

Github: halvves/node-wikimon

Test page: https://wikimon.glitch.me/test

Subscribe to a public version of the stream:

const es = new EventSource("https://wikimon.glitch.me");
es.onmessage = function(e) {
  const dat = JSON.parse(e.data);
  processData(dat);
};

Format

Here are a couple example messages, as broadcast over SSE:

{
  "action": "edit",
  "change_size": 191,
  "flags": "!N",
  "hashtags": [],
  "is_anon": false,
  "is_bot": false,
  "is_minor": false,
  "is_new": true,
  "is_unpatrolled": true,
  "mentions": [],
  "ns": "",
  "page_title": "User:Abhisirohi5",
  "rev_id": "783343086",
  "summary": "[[WP:AES|←]]Created page with '[[Abhishek Sirohi]] Abhishek Sirohi is a Master of Computer Science Student at the University of Melbourne. He is a published scientific author and wants to achi...'",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=783343086&rcid=947971474",
  "user": "Abhisirohi5"
}, {
  "action": "create",
  "change_size": null,
  "flags": null,
  "hashtags": [],
  "is_anon": false,
  "is_bot": false,
  "is_minor": false,
  "is_new": false,
  "is_unpatrolled": false,
  "mentions": [],
  "ns": "",
  "page_title": "Special:Log/newusers",
  "summary": "New user account",
  "url": null,
  "user": "BernJL"
}

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