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Useful, although the name is very unfortunate. It collides with a common installed by default tool in BSDs, and doesn't really suggest Wikipedia either.

I'd suggest wp as prefix in the command name. Eg: wpget, wpfetch would work.

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Thank you so much for the feedback. Actually i started it has a personal project for my linux machine but my friends suggested me to push it to the github and i did not know about BSD already fetch(same name). I will definitely change the name after this submission end(as it will break the link). As for now you can directly run it from fetch folder with python3. All name suggestions are welcome.

Then you're clashing with WordPress. Something like wikifetch is even better I think.

"wp" and "wiki" are both unclear... Which "wiki"?

Just call this "wikipedia".

But what if support for other wikis gets added?

But what if it starts supporting other webpages too, not just wikis?

Let's just name stuff for what their stated purpose is, instead of trying to invent "maybes" and name it after that.

Then call it weboob.

I am already out --> []

What about `wget` then? (wiki* + get)

Yep, definitely no clash there. ;-)

mwfetch (MediaWiki fetch)

Morrowind fetch à la OpenMW? :)

Kidding - although an API for Morrowind would be neat...

That's a decent name.

wordpress isn't part of any base system, at least.

It's just some PHP (eww) blog software.

What anned20 means is that quite a lot of managed hosting has the (incredible) WP-CLI installed:

https://wp-cli.org/

The (completely invaluable) shell command is "wp".

eww? like the emacs builtin browser? ;)

MediaWiki is also written in PHP?

Man, are you going to be annoyed to hear that I'm working on a personal knowledge base that I've decided to simply call "notes".

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