/wiki-scraper-reqs

Scrape Wikipedia for visa requirements

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Visa Requirements Wikipedia Scraper

Scrapes the visa requirements for citizens of all countries and creates arrays of countries for each visa type. This data is used by Nomad Couple - https://nomadcouple.vinaygopinath.me

Visa types

  • required: Visa required
  • not-required: Visa not required for a certain period, or freedom of movement
  • evisa: Electronic visa/Online visa/ETA
  • on-arrival: Visa on arrival
  • refused: Admission refused/Travel banned
  • unknown: Visa status could not be parsed by this scraper

Example

Scraping the Visa requirements for Polish citizens Wikipedia page creates dist/output/poland.json with the JSON in the following format. (Countries that have a visa note available on Wikipedia may have a "note" property)

  {
    "required": [
      {
        "name": "Afghanistan"
      },
      {
        "name": "Algeria"
      },
      ...
    ],
    "not-required": [
      {
        "name": "Albania",
        "note": "90 days; ID card valid"
      },
      {
        "name": "Andorra",
        "note": "ID card valid"
      },
      ...
    ],
    "evisa": [
      {
        "name": "Australia",
        "note": "90 days on each visit in 12-month period if granted"
      },
      {
        "name": "Ivory Coast",
        "note": "3 months; eVisa holders must arrive via Port Bouet Airport."
      },
      ...
    ],
    "on-arrival": [
      {
        "name": "Bahrain",
        "note": "14 days. Visa is also obtainable online."
      },
      {
        "name": "Bangladesh",
        "note": "30 days"
      },
      ...
    ],
    "refused": [],
    "unknown": []
  }

Build

npm run scrape

Licence

MIT Licence