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Personal Wikipedia CLI
Distraction-free, fast, and open source.

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Installation

npm install -g @impulsedev/wiki

Quick Start

wiki

Launches the interactive shell. No arguments needed.

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Features

• Interactive REPL - persistent shell, no re-launching between searches
• Advanced Reader - non-blocking, keyboard-driven article navigation
• In-article Search - find any phrase with live highlighting and match jumping

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Commands

Type directly into the shell. System commands are prefixed with .

Search & Read

Command	Description
search <query>	Find and index a new article from Wikipedia
read <title>	Open a cached article in the reader
exit · e	Close the application

System

Command	Description
.top	Storage usage across all databases
.cache	Delete all cached articles and reset the database
.config	Show current application settings
.clear · .c	Clear the terminal and reset the interface

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Reader Controls

Once inside an article:

Key	Action
↑ / ↓	Scroll line by line
← / → · PgUp / PgDn	Scroll by page
Home / End	Jump to top / bottom
f	Enter search mode
n / N	Next / previous match
q · e	Exit reader

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Screenshots

Article Reader

.cache command

.top command

.config command

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Storage

All data is kept in ./storage - databases, tokenized articles, and cache index.
Nothing is written outside that directory

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License

MIT - do whatever you want with it

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_{Screenshots taken on CachyOS, Ghostty, fish shell with tide theme}