GoWiki

A command line utility in GO Lang for reading Wikipedia documents.

Setting-up GoWiki

1. Install Go for your preferred platform
2. Install the Color package as follow:
   go get github.com/fatih/color
3. Clone the GoWiki repository:
   git clone https://github.com/rainandwind0/gowiki.git
4. From the root of the project directory issue:
   go run src/main.go [OPTIONS]

Usage

To see usage statements: go run src/main.go -h
-f write the article to file instead of console (default: false)
-l the of search results to be displayed (default: 5)
-s a search term
-v print version number

Chain any of the following flags together to get your results

Run with prompts: go run src/main.go
Preset search term: go run src/main.go -s="search string"
Limit the number of results to be displayed: go run src/main.go -l=10
See the version number: go run src/main.go -v
Search with a preset term with a set limit and the selected article is written to file:
go run src/main.go -f -l 10 -s "Oprah"

NOTE: flag values can be set with the equal (-s="Oprah") or without (-s "Oprah")

Todo:

• Add option to select only intro of returned article
• Write to file
• Pretty print (especially with nested heading)
• Binary installer