tpedia — Wikipedia In Your Terminal

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tpedia brings Wikipedia articles directly to your terminal screen, making it extremely easy to browse and find information.

Usage

Since it is just an executable, access tpedia via the command.

tpedia

Tip

Rename the executable to "Wikipedia" or "wpedia" or whatever you wish to, to make it easy to access the executable aka, easing...

Why?

Modern web browsers are great, but sometimes you just want to read documentation or learn about a topic from a terminal session.

tpedia aims to provide a simple and pleasant Wikipedia experience for terminal users, minimal Linux installations, and remote SSH environments.

Dependencies

• nlohmann/json (JSON parsing)
• FTXUI (rendering in terminal)
• cpp-httplib

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Licensing

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.

Copyright (C) 2026, Float314 and contributors

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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