fzwiki

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fzwiki

A command line tool with fzf-like UI to search Wikipedia articles and open it in your browser quickly.

Usage

1. Run the command by specifying a search query.
2. Press the <Tab> key to select item(s), then press <Enter> key to confirm the selection.
3. The pages URL of the selected items will output. If you specify the -o, --open flag, it will open the page in your default browser.

Help message

fzwiki [OPTIONS] QUERY...

Application Options:
  -V, --version  Show version
  -o, --open     Open URL in your web browser
  -l, --lang=    Language for wikipedia.org such as "en", "ja", ...

Help Options:
  -h, --help     Show this help message

Key bindings

Key	Description
type some text	narrow down candidates
<C-j> / <C-n>	move focus down
<C-k> / <C-p>	move focus up
<Tab>	select the item
<Enter>	confirm the selection

Installation

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/sheepla/fzwiki.git
cd fzwiki
go install

Download executable binary

You can download executable binaries from the release page.

Latest Release

NOTE:

With tools like ghg, you can easily install executable from GitHub release and update version.

ghg get sheepla/fzwiki  # Install
ls -l $(ghg bin)/fzwiki # It will exists executable

Configuration

To change the default language for Wikipedia, set a value in the environment variable FZWIKI_LANG .

FZWIKI_LANG="ja" fzwiki ... # --> search from ja.wikipedia.org instead of en.wikipedia.org

To make the setting persistent, add the following line to your rc file of the shell.

• bash (~/.bashrc) or zsh (~/.zshrc):

export FZWIKI_LANG="ja"

• fish (~/.config/fish/config.fish):

set -Ux FZWIKI_LANG ja

LICENSE

MIT

Contributing

Welcome! 💕