/tags/wikipedia/ Recent content in Wikipedia on galvanist Hugo en Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:35:28 +0000 /posts/2014-01-23-wikitext/ Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:35:28 +0000 /posts/2014-01-23-wikitext/ <p>I&rsquo;ve written a small command-line program that downloads the raw wikipedia markup text of the specified article. It does not download images or other supporting media. It does not follow links.</p> <p>It is designed as a shortcut to using <code>curl</code> or <code>wget</code> in situations where you want article <strong>markup</strong>. For example, to get the raw markup for the &ldquo;Abraham Lincoln&rdquo; article, you&rsquo;d normally run <code>wget 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Lincoln&amp;action=raw'</code>; that&rsquo;s lame. Instead use wikitext, and just run <code>wikitext &quot;Abraham Lincoln&quot;</code> If you want the markup for the &ldquo;Baberaham Lincoln&rdquo; article, you&rsquo;ll have to write your own program.</p>