Pp Wikipedia

A read-only Wikipedia CLI from the Printing Press library that wraps the Wikipedia REST API. You get article summaries, search, on-this-day feeds, media lookups, and random article pulls, all formatted as JSON with agent mode flags. The --select flag is the standout feature here: it keeps context small by letting you cherry-pick fields from verbose API responses. No auth required, no mutating operations. The feedback command logs surprises locally without phoning home unless you opt in. If you're building research pipelines or daily digest agents that need structured Wikipedia data without scraping HTML, this is cleaner than curl and jq chains. Go install required, paths matter.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-wikipedia --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Wikipedia — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the wikipedia-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:
```
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install wikipedia --cli-only
```
Verify: wikipedia-pp-cli --version
Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer):

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