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	# Terminal Wikipedia
	<!--Remove the below lines and add yours -->
	Search the terminal for Wikipedia short descriptions of the topics you are interested in.

	### Prerequisites
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	Modules required to be able to use the script

	````
	pip install colorama
	pip install requests
	pip install beautifulsoup4
	````

	### How to run the script
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	Steps on how to run the script along with suitable examples.
	````
	python wiki.py [topic]
	````
	or just execute the script and you'll be prompted to enter the topic.

	### Author
	#
	<!--Remove the below lines and add yours -->
	* Github - https://github.com/TheMambaDev <br>
	* Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheMambaDev

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	import sys
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	from numpy import full
	import requests
	from colorama import Fore

	keyword = sys.argv[1:]

	if keyword == []:
	keyword = input("Please enter a keyword: ")
	else:
	keyword = "_".join(keyword)

	print("Searching for:", keyword + "\n")

	req = requests.get("https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/" + keyword)

	wiki = BeautifulSoup(req.text, "html.parser").find_all("p")
	link = BeautifulSoup(req.text, "html.parser").find("a")["href"]
	full_text = []

	# get the first 10 paragraphs
	for i, p in enumerate(wiki):
	if i == 10:
	break

	if p.text == "":
	continue

	full_text.append(p.text + "\n")

	# if there is no text, alert the user about insufficient data
	if len(full_text) < 2:
	print(Fore.YELLOW + "No info found for this keyword.\n")
	exit()

	# highlight the first paragraph
	full_text[0] = Fore.GREEN + full_text[0] + Fore.RESET

	# add link to the end of the text
	full_text[-1] = (
	"for more information please visit: "
	+ Fore.CYAN
	+ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"
	+ link[2:]
	+ Fore.RESET
	)

	print("\n".join(full_text))

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