wikipedia2text — displays Wikipedia entries on the command line

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.

       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.

       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".

$HOME/.wikipedia2textrc
                 Will  be  sourced from wikipedia2text on startup. Should contain variable assignments. The same
                 variables as for the environment are recognised.

       wikipedia2text   was   first   released   by   Christian   Brabandt   on   inhisblog(linktoURLhttp://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.

       wikipedia2text — displays Wikipedia entries on the command line

       The program recognizes the following command line options:

       -bprog   Use program prog as browser.

       -B        Do not use browser configured via configuration file or environment.

       -cpatt, -Ipatt
                 Colorize case-sensitive pattern patt in output.

       -C, -N    Colorize output.

       -h        Show help and a summary of options.

       -ipatt   Colorize case-insensitive pattern patt in output.

       -llang   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.

       -Wbase-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.

       -Xbrowser-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.)

       The current version of wikipedia2text should be available at onChristianBrabandt'swebsite(linktoURLhttp://www.256bit.org/~chrisbra/wiki) .

                                                                                               WIKIPEDIA2TEXT(1)

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

wikipedia2text  [-BCnNoOpPsSuU]   [-bprog]   [  {-c  | -i  | -I }  patt]  [-llang]  [-Wbase-url]  [-X
       "browseroptions"]  Querywikipedia2text-o [-bprog]  [-llang]  Querywikipedia2text [-h]

       wikipedia2text-vwikipedia2text-r

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