wikipedia2text — displays Wikipedia entries on the
command line
wikipedia2text [-BCnNoOpPsSuU] [-b
prog] [ {-c | -i | -I } patt] [-l
lang] [-W base-url] [-X "browser
options"] Query
wikipedia2text -o [-b prog] [-l
lang] Query
wikipedia2text [-h]
wikipedia2text -v
wikipedia2text -r
This manual page documents briefly the wikipedia2text
command.
wikipedia2text fetches and renders Wikipedia
articles using a text-mode web-browser (currently recognises elinks,
links2, links, lynx and w3m) and display the
text of the article on STDOUT respectively in a pager.
The program recognizes the following command line options:
- -b prog
- Use program prog as browser.
- -B
- Do not use browser configured via configuration file or environment.
- -c patt, -I
patt
- Colorize case-sensitive pattern patt in output.
- -C, -N
- Colorize output.
- -h
- Show help and a summary of options.
- -i patt
- Colorize case-insensitive pattern patt in output.
- -l lang
- use Wikipedia in language lang. See the Wikipedia
Languages entry elsewhere in this document.
- -n
- Do not colorize output.
- -o
- Open the Wikipedia page in the browser.
- -O
- Do not open the Wikipedia page in the browser.
- -p
- Use a pager (set by default).
- -P
- Don't use a pager.
- -r
- Display a random Wikipedia article.
- -s
- Display only the summary of the Wikipedia article.
- -S
- Display the full content of the Wikipedia article and not only the
summary.
- -u
- Just print the URL of the Wikipedia page and exit.
- -U
- Display the full content of the Wikipedia article and not only
print the URL of the page.
- -v
- Show version number.
- -W base-url
- use base-url as base URL for wikipedia (e.g. use a different wiki),
querying this URL will happen by appending the search term.
- -X
browser-options
- pass through browser-options to browser, e.g. "-width
180". (Warning: must be in quotes if multiple options should be
passed; browser specific, not checked.)
The following environment variables are recognized:
- ABROWSER
- Browser to use as default instead of to found or configured web
browser.
- IGNCASE
- Default value for case-sensitivity of colorizing the output. Can be set to
"true" or "false".
- LOCAL
- Default value for language in which Wikipedia should be used. See
the Wikipedia Languages entry elsewhere in this document.
- OUTPUTURL
- Determines, if wikipedia2text should display only the URL of the
Wikipedia article by default. Can be set to "true" or
"false".
- Default value for pager to use. Can also be set to "true", in
which case, wikipedia2text tries to figure out the appropriate
pager, or "false", which means not to use a pager at all.
- SHORT
- Determines, if wikipedia2text should display only the summary of
the Wikipedia article by default. Can be set to "true" or
"false".
- USEBROWSER
- Determines, if wikipedia2text should open the Wikipedia page
via openurl in the globally set default browser, i.e.
Firefox or Konqueror, by default. Can be set to
"true" or "false".
- $HOME/.wikipedia2textrc
- Will be sourced from wikipedia2text on startup. Should contain
variable assignments. The same variables as for the environment are
recognised.
wikipedia2text currently supports the following
Wikipedia languages:
- af
- Cape Dutch (Afrikaans)
- als
- Alemannic
- ca
- Catalan
- cs
- Czech
- da
- Danish
- de
- German
- en
- English
- eo
- Esperanto
- es
- Spanish
- fi
- Finnish
- fr
- French
- hu
- Hungarian
- ia
- Interlingua
- is
- Islandic
- it
- Italian
- la
- Latin
- lb
- Luxembourgian
- nds
- Low German
- nl
- Dutch
- nn, no
- Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmål)
- pl
- Polish
- pt
- Portuguese
- rm
- Rhaeto-Romanic
- ro
- Romanian
- simple
- Simple English
- sk
- Slovak
- sl
- Slovenian
- sv
- Swedish
- tr
- Turkish
wikipedia2text was written by Christian Brabandt
<cb@256bit.org>. Patches also from Axel Beckert
<abe@deuxchevaux.org>.
This manual page was written by Axel Beckert
<abe@deuxchevaux.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by
others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
wikipedia2text was first released by Christian Brabandt on
in his blog (link to URL
http://blog.256bit.org/archives/126-Wikipedia-in-der-Shell.html) with
as script named wiki. Some users may find it useful to create an
alias with that name for speeding up the typing of a wikipedia2text
command if no other command of that name is present.
The current version of wikipedia2text should be available
at on Christian Brabandt's website (link to URL
http://www.256bit.org/~chrisbra/wiki) .