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Usage

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

Overview

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

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) .

History

Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 9 (Stretch): the text shown here
Debian 8 (Jessie)
Debian 7 (Wheezy) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
Debian 4.0 (Etch)

-W since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -X since Debian 9 (Stretch); -r since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).