Yes I did it for the free Alexa dev sweater.
No I haven’t retrieved my sweater yet. The ratings are pretty bad. People want the entire featured article read out to them. Maybe I’ll add that if I get the time. Feel free to make a pull request!
Fun to play with Node on AWS Lambda. Also learned about YQL queries, which seem pretty useful for web scraping.
I realized that wikipedia doesn’t actually have an API for their featured articles… It was brutal working through solution iterations until I arrived at the current one. One candidate was parsing the Atom feed XML with an actual server.
Storing the daily queries would make this service much more efficient at the cost of some complexity.