WikiTerm

C-based CLI utility for fetching and rendering plaintext Wikipedia article content via MediaWiki API.

Dependencies

• libcurl: Network transport.
• cJSON: JSON serialization and parsing.
• POSIX environment: Required for popen and less integration.

Compilation

Just run

make

Usage

./build/wiki "Article Title"

Technical Specification

• Protocol: MediaWiki Action API (action=query).
• Format: prop=extracts with explaintext=1 for clean text removal of HTML/Markdown.
• Network Configuration:
  • Connect Timeout: 30 seconds.
  • Total Timeout: 30 seconds.
  • Redirects: Follow location enabled.
  • User-Agent: wiki-extract/1.0.
• I/O Handling:
  • Output is piped to less -R for paging support.
  • Falls back to stdout if popen fails.
• Memory Management: Manual buffer reallocation via write_callback for dynamic API payloads.

License

MIT