The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Surfraw
Posts with mentions or reviews of Surfraw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-18.
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Setting up lynx
Also going to share this one, more for everyone else that's forgotten about it, https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw turns your terminal into a search engine. Its basically a wrapper around lynx (or any browser via the $BROWSER environment variable) to about 99% of every searchable site out there. Can even be extended with simple bash for new sites or even apis (yes, xml/rest/graphql apis).
- Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia
- Mozilla is officially against an open net. Wants governments to pass laws suppressing "conspiracy theory" content. AKA any recognition that our governing class are malevolent. If you use Mozilla, ditch it.
Wikipedia
Posts with mentions or reviews of Wikipedia.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-25.
- Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia
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How to Find the Page ID for a Wikipedia page (e.g. to use with the MediaWiki Action API)
(I am using the excellent Python library that wraps the WikiMedia API by Jon Goldsmith above)
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Using Python and the Wikipedia API to Easily Add Wikipedia Summaries to Your Website
I use Django and Python, and there is a Python project at https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia that wraps the MediaWiki API to make things super easy.
- am i doing this pip install correctly ?
- Wikipedia article headings
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Surfraw and Wikipedia you can also consider the following projects:
fetch - wik is use to get information about anything on the shell using Wikipedia. [Moved to: https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/wik]
pywikibot - A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.
gopherpedia.com - gopher server for gopherpedia.com, an interface to wikipedia
min - A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
bin - My ~/bin dir
emacs-w3m - emacs-w3m, a simple Emacs interface to w3m
gitignore - A collection of useful .gitignore templates
so - A terminal interface for Stack Overflow