Wikipedia article summary in 1 line

Pull the lead paragraph of any Wikipedia article. Faster than opening a browser tab.

$ curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Functional_programming" \
  | jq -r '.extract'

1. [01] curlcurl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Functional_programmin…
   Wikipedia's REST summary endpoint. The path is the article title with underscores. Returns title, description, .extract (lead paragraph), and thumbnail.
2. [02] jqjq -r '.extract'
   Pluck the lead-paragraph string. -r outputs raw text (no surrounding quotes).

In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm where programs are constructed by applying and composing functions...

• Use the URL-safe title (spaces → underscores).
• Swap `en` for `de`, `fr`, etc. for other languages.
• Add `?redirect=true` to follow redirects.