[ks2048]

The bigger problem is this is wikitext markup. It would be helpful if they also provide HTML and/or plain text.

I know there are now a couple pretty-good wikitext parsers, but for years, it was a bigger problem. The only "official" one was the huge php app itself.

[Philpax]

Oh, it's godawful; the format is a crime against all things structured. I use `parse-wiki-text-2` [0], which is a fork of `parse-wiki-text`, a Rust library by an author who has now disappeared into the wind. (Every day that I parse Wikipedia, I thank him for his contributions, wherever he may be.)

I wrote another Rust library [1] that wraps around `parse-wiki-text-2` that offers a simplified AST that takes care of matching tags for you. It's designed to be bound to WASM [2], which is how I'm pretty reliably parsing Wikitext for my web application. (The existing JS libraries aren't fantastic, if I'm being honest.)

[0]: https://github.com/soerenmeier/parse-wiki-text-2

[1]: https://github.com/philpax/wikitext_simplified

[2]: https://github.com/genresinspace/genresinspace.github.io/blo...