wikiget

Fetch the wikitext of a wikipedia page

Examples:

# These will print the same wikitext:
wikiget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtyping
wikiget Subtyping
wikiget 213508           # (the page ID of 'Subtyping')
wikiget                  # ('Subtyping' is the default page)

# Let pandoc convert the wikitext to markdown, page with bat:
wikiget --to=md --pager=bat Subtyping

If bat is selected as the pager, it is invoked with arguments providing syntax highlighting for the used output format (wikitext, markdown).

Rudimentary zsh completions can be generated with

compdef _gnu_generic wikiget

Requirements

• zsh, jq
• optional: bat, pandoc

wikiget --help

Fetch the wikitext of a wikipedia page
  

SYNOPSIS

  wikiget [-p|--plain] [-m|--markdown] [--pager[=bat]] <page>


DESCRIPTION

  <page> is interpreted to be

      a page ID,      if integer
      a url,          if it looks like a Wikipedia url
      a page name     otherwise
    
      (If not provided, an example page is fetched.)

  The wikitext is printed to stdout, or displayed with a pager depending
  on used options.

  If `bat` is selected as the pager, it is invoked with arguments
  providing syntax highlighting for the used output format (wikitext,
  markdown).


OPTIONS

      --section=N      only the indicated page section (integer)
      --to=md          convert (pandoc) the wikitext to markdown
      --to=txt         convert (pandoc) the wikitext to plaintext
  -p, --pager          display with $PAGER (or less if unset)
  -b, --pager=bat      display with bat
  -n, --dry-run        no request; use a hard-coded example API reply
  -h, --help           print help


EXAMPLES

  # These will print the same wikitext:
  wikiget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtyping
  wikiget Subtyping
  wikiget 213508           # (the page ID of 'Subtyping')
  wikiget                  # ('Subtyping' is the default page)

  # Let pandoc convert the wikitext to markdown, page with bat:
  wikiget --to=md --pager=bat Subtyping


MISC

  If `bat` is selected as the pager, it is invoked with arguments
  providing syntax highlighting for the used output format (wikitext,
  markdown).

  Rudimentary zsh completions can be generated with

      compdef _gnu_generic wikiget