Wikiscraper for the geo-tag at each url. Horrible code, first attempt at using Node.js.

target_urls.txt

China;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
Philippines;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines
Sweden;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden
Italy;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy
Brazil;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil

wiki_scraper.js

fs = require('fs');
YQL = require('yql');

var urls = fs.readFileSync('./target_urls.txt', 'utf-8').toString().split('\n')
var query = 'SELECT * FROM data.html.cssselect WHERE (url=@url) AND (css=@css)';
var file = 'coordinates.txt';
fs.writeFile(file, "");

console.log("Finding the coordinates, wait moment or two.");
urls.forEach(function(row){
    if( row != "" ){
        var split_row = row.split(';');
        var target = split_row[0];
        new YQL.exec(query, function(response) {
            console.log("Currently finding the coordinates for " + target);
            var response = response.query;
            if (response.results.results != null){
                var resp = response.results.results.span;
                var str = target + '-[';
                if (resp.length > 1){
                    fs.appendFile(file, str + resp[0].content + ']\n');
                } else {
                    fs.appendFile(file, str + resp.content + ']\n');
                }
            }
        }, {"url": split_row[1], "css": ".geo"});
    }
});