Wikisearch

Wikisearch is a CLI tool that you can use to quickly search summaries of anything on Wikipedia. It got some useful features like quickly copying summaries and opening it in the browser using.

Installation

You must have nodejs and npm installed.

npm install -g wikisearch

You can verify the installation by using wikisearch -h

Usage

Fetching summaries

wikisearch -s <search_word>

Example:

wikisearch -s Javascript

Opening in browsers: -b

wikisearch -s Javascript -b

Copying summaries: -c

-b and -c can be used together.

wikisearch -s Javascript -c

Fetching related pages

wikisearch -s <search_word> -r

Debugging

There are 2 debugging levels: 1-2
1: Shows the arguments passed when doing a search.
2: Same as 1, but shows the entire response in json format.
To see debugging info, use -d<level> after any search.

Example:

wikisearch -s JavaScript -d1

Community

You can join my discord server if you want to contact me.