#!/usr/bin/perl =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 =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) }