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=head1 NAME
wikipedia - lookup an entry in the wikipedia
=head1 SYNOPSIS
% wikipedia [-l lang] perl
=head1 DESCRIPTION
wikipedia is a command line tool for looking up a topic in the wikipedia
and printing it to STDOUT. Useful if you spend a lot of time in a shell
and don't want to fire up a web browser to see what something is.
=head1 AUTHORS
=over 4
=item * Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>
=back
=cut
use strict;
use WWW::Wikipedia;
use Text::Autoformat;
use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Std;
my %options;
getopts( 'l:', \%options );
my $term = shift;
pod2usage( { verbose => 1 } ) if !defined( $term );
my $wiki = WWW::Wikipedia->new( language => $options{ l } || 'en' );
my $entry = $wiki->search( $term );
## use a pager if we can
eval( 'use IO::Page' );
if ( $entry ) {
my $text = $entry->text();
if ( $text ) { print $text; }
else {
print "Specific entry not found, see also:\n";
foreach ( $entry->related() ) { print " - $_\n"; }
}
}
else { print qq("$term" not found in wikipedia\n) }
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