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Fetch and decompress a Wikidata dump
const fs = require('fs')
const https = require('https')
const unbzip2Stream = require('unbzip2-stream')
const url =
'https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/latest-all.json.bz2'
const decompress = unbzip2Stream()
const output = fs.createWriteStream('data/latest.json')
https.get(url, res => {
res.pipe(decompress).pipe(output)
})
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