WIK

wik is a tool to view wikipedia pages from your terminal. It also let you search for any wikipedia up to date article on one query from your terminal.

Requirements

• Python3
• beautifulsoup4

Installation

Linux

From Source

sudo pip3 install beautifulsoup4 flit_core
git clone https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/wik.git
cd wik
sudo pip3 install .

PYPI

sudo pip3 install wik

Windows

From Source

pip install beautifulsoup4 flit_core
git clone https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/wik.git
cd wik
pip install .

Note: Windows users should have added python to there environment variable

PYPI

pip install wik

Options

Using wik is acutally really simple.

usage: wik [-h] [-s SEARCH] [-i INFO] [-q QUICK] [-l LANG] [-x]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s SEARCH, --search SEARCH
                        Search any topic
  -i INFO, --info INFO  Get info on any topic
  -q QUICK, --quick QUICK
                        Get the summary on any topic
  -l LANG, --lang LANG  Get info in your native language (default english)
  -x, --rand            Get random Wikipedia article

Example

$ wik -i Linux

$ wik -q Linux

$ wik -i Linux -l br

Contribution

You can contribute to the project by opening a issue if you face any or making a pull requests, if you think you can fix somthing or make improvment on the code. If you have some ideas related to the project you can contact me.

Want to work with me?

This is the task list if you think you can implement any please make a pull request.

Note: Do things which are under To-do do not make a pull request for tasks which are already under development.