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¶

elinks(1), links(1), links2(1), lynx(1), w3m(1)

AUTHOR¶

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.

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) .