This page is a work in progress with no schedule for updates. Just thought I'd pass on things that I found useful.
Precis -- Searches for an article on Wikipedia and prints out the summary paragraph at the beginning
#!/bin/bash
#This is very much a script in progress. One that often chokes, too.
#usage: ./precis [search term(s)]
input=$(echo $* | tr ' ' '_')
string=$(curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=extracts&titles=$input&formatversion=2&exintro=1&explaintext=1&exsectionformat=plain" \
| sed -e 's:\\n:\n:g; s:\\":\":g; s:\"\}\]\}\}::g')
printf "\n"
echo ${string#*extract\":\"}
printf "\n"
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~thumos
thumos@tilde.club
Feb. 2023