goWikit

Fetch Wikipedia summaries from the terminal — fast, simple, no dependencies.

Open Source — GPL-3.0

What is goWikit?

goWikit is a command-line tool for quickly fetching Wikipedia summaries, written in Go. It's a single binary with no external dependencies — download, run, and look up anything from your terminal.

Whether you're researching a topic, settling a debate, or just curious, goWikit gets you the answer in seconds without leaving the command line.

$ gowikit "Go programming" Go (programming language) Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson...

Features

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Multiple Languages

Search Wikipedia in any language with interactive disambiguation when multiple results are found.

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Terminal or Browser

View summaries directly in the terminal, or open the full article in your default browser with a single flag.

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REST API Service

Run goWikit as a background service with REST APIs — integrate Wikipedia lookups into your own tools and scripts.

Usage

# Basic lookup
gowikit "Linux kernel"

# Search in another language
gowikit -l ko "서울"

# Open in browser
gowikit -b "Rust programming"

# Run as a REST service
gowikit -serve :8080