(view source code of birdname.bat as plain text)
@ECHO OFF
:: Check Windows versionIF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" GOTO Syntax
:: Enable delayed variable expansionSETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
:: Check command line argument(s)IF "%~1"=="" GOTO Syntax
ECHO.%* | FIND "?" >NUL && GOTO Syntax
:: Check if FINDSTR is availableFINDSTR /? 2>&1 | FIND "/B" >NUL || GOTO Syntax
:: Check if WGetTxt.vbs is availableSET WGetTxt=
SET Download=
SET Search="%CD%;%PATH%"
SET Search=%!!%
FOR %%A IN (%Search%) DO (
IF "!WGetTxt!"=="" (
IF NOT "%%~A"=="" (
IF EXIST "%%~A.\WGetTxt.vbs" (
PUSHD "%%~fA"
SET WGetTxt="!__CD__!WGetTxt.vbs"
POPD
) ) )):: Prompt for download if WGetTxt is not foundIF "%WGetTxt%"=="" (
ECHO This batch file requires the WGetTxt.vbs script.
SET /P Download=Do you want to download it now? [y/N]
):: Start download if confirmedIF /I "%Download%"=="Y" (
START /WAIT http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/wget.zip
ECHO.
ECHO UnZIP WGetTxt.vbs from the downloaded ZIP file, either to the current
ECHO directory or to a directory listed in the PATH; then try again.
):: Abort if WGetTxt.vbs is not available yetIF "%WGetTxtAvailable%"=="No" GOTO End
SET BirdName.Dutch=%*
SET _BirdName.Dutch=%BirdName.Dutch: =_%
SET BirdName.Danish=
SET BirdName.English=
SET BirdName.French=
SET BirdName.German=
SET BirdName.Scientific=
FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=()" %%A IN ('CSCRIPT.EXE //NoLogo %WGetTxt% /U:http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%_BirdName.Dutch% ^| FINDSTR /R /I /C:"%BirdName.Dutch% ([^^)]*) is"') DO (
IF "!BirdName.Scientific!"=="" SET BirdName.Scientific=%%A
)IF NOT DEFINED BirdName.Scientific (
FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=()" %%A IN ('CSCRIPT.EXE //NoLogo %WGetTxt% /U:http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%_BirdName.Dutch% ^| FINDSTR /R /I /C:"%BirdName.Dutch% ([^^)]*) behoort"') DO (
IF "!BirdName.Scientific!"=="" SET BirdName.Scientific=%%A
))ECHO.%BirdName.Scientific% | FIND "," >NUL && FOR /F "delims=," %%A IN ("%BirdName.Scientific%") DO SET BirdName.Scientific=%%A
ECHO.%BirdName.Scientific% | FIND "[" >NUL && FOR /F "delims=[" %%A IN ("%BirdName.Scientific%") DO SET BirdName.Scientific=%%A
SET _BirdName.Scientific=%BirdName.Scientific: =_%
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('CSCRIPT.EXE //NoLogo %WGetTxt% /U:http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/%_BirdName.Scientific% ^| FIND /V "[CDATA[" ^| FIND /V "." ^| FIND /V ""') DO (
IF "!BirdName.Danish!"=="" SET BirdName.Danish=%%A
)FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('CSCRIPT.EXE //NoLogo %WGetTxt% /U:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%_BirdName.Scientific% ^| FIND /V "[CDATA[" ^| FIND /V "." ^| FIND /V ""') DO (
IF "!BirdName.English!"=="" SET BirdName.English=%%A
)FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('CSCRIPT.EXE //NoLogo %WGetTxt% /U:http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%_BirdName.Scientific% ^| FIND /V "[CDATA[" ^| FIND /V "." ^| FIND /V ""') DO (
IF "!BirdName.French!"=="" SET BirdName.French=%%A
)FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('CSCRIPT.EXE //NoLogo %WGetTxt% /U:http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%_BirdName.Scientific% ^| FIND /V "[CDATA[" ^| FIND /V "." ^| FIND /V ""') DO (
IF "!BirdName.German!"=="" SET BirdName.German=%%A
)SET BirdName.
ENDLOCAL
GOTO:EOF
:SyntaxECHO.
ECHO BirdName.bat, Version 0.31 beta
ECHO Get scientific and some translated names for a specified Dutch bird name
ECHO.
ECHO Usage: BIRDNAME dutch bird name
ECHO.
ECHO Notes: Do NOT use quotes for the Dutch bird name.
ECHO Specified bird names must be complete, e.g. "Middelste Zaagbek" instead
ECHO of just "Zaagbek" (do NOT use the quotes on the command line).
ECHO This batch file requires WGetTxt.vbs to get information from Wikipedia;
ECHO if WGetTxt.vbs is not found, you will be prompted to download it.
ECHO It also requires FINDSTR, which is not native in Windows NT 4.
ECHO Translations include Danish, English, French, German and scientific;
ECHO support for Spanish could not be included yet, because WikiPedia Spain
ECHO uses the scientific name for the page title.
ECHO This batch file will break when WikiPedia changes its page layout.
ECHO.
ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude
ECHO http://www.robvanderwoude.com
:EndIF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ENDLOCAL
IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" EXIT /B 1
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