NAME
wikipedia2text — displays Wikipedia entries on the command line
SYNOPSIS
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
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
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.)
ENVIRONMENT
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".
- PAGER
-
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".
FILES
- $HOME/.wikipedia2textrc
-
Will be sourced from wikipedia2text on startup. Should contain variable assignments. The same variables as for the environment are recognised.
WIKIPEDIA LANGUAGES
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
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
wikipedia2text was written by Christian Brabandt <[email protected]>. Patches also from Axel Beckert <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Axel Beckert <[email protected]> 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.
HISTORY
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.
OTHER INFO
The current version of wikipedia2text should be available at on Christian Brabandt's website (link to URL http://www.256bit.org/~chrisbra/wiki) .