wiclipedia 0.1.0b0

Minimalist Wikipedia CLI client for terminal dwellers.

WiCLIpedia

This is a minimalistic command line interface (CLI) tool to fetch and display data from Wikipedia.

In an era where Artificial Intelligence answers everything and large language models shape our knowledge, this program is a small tribute to Wikipedia, the silent, human-curated backbone that feeds those very models. Never forget the source.

Installation

pip install wiclipedia

Usage

wicli "Blade Runner"

User will be interactively prompted to navigate through the article's sections and subsections, or select a different page if the query is ambiguous.

By default, it fetches the English Wikipedia.
To specify a different language, use the -l or --lang option:

wicli "La classe operaia va in paradiso" --lang it

API Respect & Fair Use Disclaimer

WiCLIpedia interfaces directly with the official Wikipedia PHP/MediaWiki APIs without using any third-party scraping libraries. Please use this tool responsibly. If you need to perform massive automated data extraction, use official database dumps instead of hammering the live API.

License

This program is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later (GPL-3.0). See the LICENSE file for details.