wikipedia-universe

Visualize Wikipedia Relationships

Explore the tree-like structure representing the relationships between Wikipedia articles. The application updates in real time as it crawls through new links. It also stores the article titles in a text file for later reference.

Demo

Usage

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/visvig/wikipedia-universe.git
   cd wikipedia-universe
   

2. Check and install dependencies

   python check_deps.py
   

3. Run the Application

   python app.py
   

4. Access the Application Open your browser and navigate to

   http://127.0.0.1:8050/
   

Customization

You can customize the crawling behavior or visualization by editing the following:

1. Graph Layout:
   Customize the graph layout by modifying the layout property of the Cytoscape component in app.py.

   Example:

   layout={'name': 'breadthfirst'}  # Change to 'cose', 'grid', etc., as per preference

2. Starting Article:
   You can change the starting article that the crawler uses by modifying the start_title variable in the background_crawler function in app.py.

   Example:

   start_title = "Artificial Intelligence"  # Replace with any Wikipedia article title
   

3. Crawling Depth:
   Adjust the depth of the Wikipedia crawler in the background_crawler function in app.py.

   depth = 2  # Set the desired depth of the crawl

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.
You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code as per the terms of the license.

See the LICENSE file for more details.