Wikipedia "Grabber" #1647

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OVERLORD · 2026-02-05T01:30:01+03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:30:01 +03:00

Originally created by @E-Fail on GitHub (Apr 13, 2020).

Describe the feature you'd like
I want to link a page to wikipedia. The content from Wikipedia should appear in the page contents and refresh after a custom intervall.

Describe the benefits this feature would bring to BookStack users
If an Article is updated, for example Fusion power, i have the latest infos in bookstack. For sure, I can search the wikipedia article in google but the idea is a private KB without long searches. All in one place.

Additional context
A option to select chapters would be nice, i don't need the sources at the end of every article. Everytime the page is new fetched from the source, archive the old - like on changes in a existing site.

Originally created by @E-Fail on GitHub (Apr 13, 2020). **Describe the feature you'd like** I want to link a page to wikipedia. The content from Wikipedia should appear in the page contents and refresh after a custom intervall. **Describe the benefits this feature would bring to BookStack users** If an Article is updated, for example Fusion power, i have the latest infos in bookstack. For sure, I can search the wikipedia article in google but the idea is a private KB without long searches. All in one place. **Additional context** A option to select chapters would be nice, i don't need the sources at the end of every article. Everytime the page is new fetched from the source, archive the old - like on changes in a existing site.

OVERLORD added the 🌔 Out of scope label 2026-02-05 01:30:01 +03:00

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2026-02-05 01:30:03 +03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:30:07 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Apr 25, 2020):

Thanks for the suggestion @E-Fail.

To be honest, I don't think this is something I'd look to have as part of the BookStack core as this flow is very use-case specific and depends on an external wiki system. Therefore I'm going to close this off as out of scope.

Once the API has been fleshed out a bit further, I'm sure this is something that someone could script without too much effort.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Apr 25, 2020): Thanks for the suggestion @E-Fail. To be honest, I don't think this is something I'd look to have as part of the BookStack core as this flow is very use-case specific and depends on an external wiki system. Therefore I'm going to close this off as out of scope. Once the API has been fleshed out a bit further, I'm sure this is something that someone could script without too much effort.

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Reference: starred/BookStack#1647