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
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) .