WIKIPEDIA2TEXT

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) .