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ask wikipedia from command line using ruby
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require 'open-uri' | |
require 'json' | |
language = 'en' | |
print 'What do you need to know? : ' | |
article = URI::encode gets.chomp | |
request_url = "http://#{language}.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=#{article}&format=json&prop=text§ion=0" | |
open(request_url) do |file| | |
content = JSON.parse(file.read())['parse']['text'].first[1] | |
content_text = content.gsub(/<\/?[^>]+>/, '') | |
content_text = content_text.gsub(/[[:space:]]+/, ' ') | |
content_text = content_text.gsub(/&#[0-9]+;/,'') | |
content_text = content_text.gsub(/\[[0-9]+\]/,'') | |
puts content_text | |
end |
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