Installation

wiki ships as a single static binary for Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD on amd64 and arm64. Pick whichever method fits your setup.

Go

go install github.com/tamnd/wikipedia-cli/cmd/wiki@latest

The binary lands in $(go env GOPATH)/bin. Requires Go 1.26 or newer.

Homebrew

Once the tap is published:

brew install tamnd/tap/wiki

Scoop (Windows)

scoop bucket add tamnd https://github.com/tamnd/scoop-bucket
scoop install wiki

Linux packages

Download the .deb, .rpm, or .apk for your architecture from the releases page and install it:

sudo dpkg -i wiki_*_linux_amd64.deb     # Debian / Ubuntu
sudo rpm -i  wiki_*_linux_amd64.rpm     # Fedora / RHEL
sudo apk add --allow-untrusted wiki_*_linux_amd64.apk   # Alpine

Docker

docker run --rm ghcr.io/tamnd/wiki read "Alan Turing"

Mount a volume to keep the cache and downloads between runs:

docker run --rm -v ~/data/wiki:/data ghcr.io/tamnd/wiki \
  dump list --wiki simplewiki

Prebuilt binary

Grab the archive for your platform from the releases page, extract it, and put wiki on your PATH:

tar xzf wiki_*_linux_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv wiki /usr/local/bin/

Every release also carries checksums.txt, a cosign signature, and a CycloneDX SBOM per archive if you want to verify what you downloaded.

Verify

wiki version
wiki read "Wikipedia" --summary

Next: the quick start.