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Get random fact from wikipedia
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| #!/bin/bash -e | |
| API="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php\ | |
| ?action=query\ | |
| &prop=extracts\ | |
| &format=json\ | |
| &exsentences=2\ | |
| &explaintext=\ | |
| &exsectionformat=plain\ | |
| &rawcontinue=\ | |
| &generator=random\ | |
| &grnnamespace=0" | |
| MSG=`curl -L -s "$API" | jq -r '.query.pages | to_entries[] | .value.extract'` | |
| echo $MSG |
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