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serverwentdown/wikisum.sh

Created August 10, 2015 15:56
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Downloads the Wikipedia article and parses it for the first paragraph as a summary
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wikisum.sh
#!/bin/zsh
SUMMARY=`curl -Ls "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=${*// /+}" | grep "<p>.*<\/p>" | head -n 1 | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba' | sed -E 's/\[[^>]{1,2}\]//g'`
echo -n $SUMMARY
if [ -n "$SUMMARY" ]; then echo; fi;
[ -n "$SUMMARY" ]
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