10 Random Words off Random Wikipedia Articles - Use for Passwords

Notes

Dependencies

brew install gnu-sed

PassScrape.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Author: Jared Williams

function _spinner() {
    # $1 start/stop
    #
    # on start: $2 display message
    # on stop : $2 process exit status
    #           $3 spinner function pid (supplied from stop_spinner)

    local on_success="DONE"
    local on_fail="FAIL"
    local white="\e[1;37m"
    local green="\e[1;32m"
    local red="\e[1;31m"
    local nc="\e[0m"

    case $1 in
        start)
            # calculate the column where spinner and status msg will be displayed
            #let column=$(tput cols)-${#2}-8
	    let column=1
            # display message and position the cursor in $column column
            echo -ne ${2}
            printf "%${column}s"

            # start spinner
            i=1
            sp='\|/-'
            delay=0.15

            while :
            do
                printf "\b${sp:i++%${#sp}:1}"
                sleep $delay
            done
            ;;
        stop)
            if [[ -z ${3} ]]; then
                echo "spinner is not running.."
                exit 1
            fi

            kill $3 > /dev/null 2>&1

            # inform the user uppon success or failure
            if [[ $2 -eq 0 ]]; then
                echo -en "${on_success}"
            else
                echo -en "${on_fail}"
            fi
            ;;
        *)
            echo "invalid argument, try {start/stop}"
            exit 1
            ;;
    esac
}

function start_spinner {
    # $1 : msg to display
    _spinner "start" "${1}" &
    # set global spinner pid
    _sp_pid=$!
#    disown
}

function stop_spinner {
    # $1 : command exit status
    _spinner "stop" $1 $_sp_pid
    unset _sp_pid
}

start_spinner "Scraping Data. This may take a minute."

wordOut=0

while [ $wordOut -lt 10 ]; do
     WIKPAGE=`curl -Ls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random | /usr/local/opt/gnu-sed/libexec/gnubin/sed  '/</ {:k s/<[^>]*>//g; /</ {N; bk}}'  | sed -e '/^$/d' | sort |  sed '/.\{10\}/d'  | sed -e "/[0-9]/d" | sed '/^..$/d' | sed '/^.$/d' | awk '{print $1}' | grep -E '[:alnum:]' | egrep -v '^$|Tools|{|}'`
     PW[$wordOut]=`echo $WIKPAGE |  awk 'BEGIN { srand() } int(rand() * NR) == 0 { x = $0 } END { print x }' | perl -pe "s/ /\n/g" | awk 'BEGIN { srand() } int(rand() * NR) == 0 { x = $0 } END { print x }'`
     wordOut=`echo $wordOut + 1 | bc`
done
echo -e "\n"
echo ${PW[*]}
echo -e "\n"
stop_spinner $?