Network graph of the outgoing pages from the first paragraph of a Wikipedia page.
This little script asks for an input wikipedia URL and an integer value, scraping the outgoing page links from the first paragraph of the input page, and builds a network graph outwards as many degrees as requested.
I built this to learn some new skills, and build a test case for visualizing interconnected documents.
NB: This computation is inherently exponential, so please show restraint.
I'm sure excessive request would annoy the great team at Wikipedia as well.
At 3+ degrees of adjacency, the graph as it is becomes too cluttered.
I recommend playing around with the physics with the sliders provided.
I recommend:
- forceAtlas2Based solver
- reducing centralGravity (>0)
- reducing gravitationalConstant
- playing around!
If you find any optimal physics/other options,
let me know or go ahead and build it.
This is just a working model, and I'm sure the code can be refined with a bit more thought.
wikigraph.html included is an example output,
given the input URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphotericin_B
and the adjacency factor 3.