## Wolfram Alpha in the command line
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Using all [power](https://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/) of Computational Intelligence™ in your terminal! It could be your virtual assistant, that comes handy in a lot of cases, like working with dates, doing conversions and much more:

![Wolfram Alpha in your terminal](//developer.run/pic/wa_full.png)



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Wolfram Alpha has awesome [text API](http://products.wolframalpha.com/short-answers-api/documentation/) to play with. Free access for up to 2,000 non-commercial API calls per month, get your key [here](https://products.wolframalpha.com/api/).

And if your terminal [supports images](https://developer.run/40) (or if you are fine with opening images in the separate app) you can even use [images API](http://products.wolframalpha.com/simple-api/documentation/) for stuff like plots:

![Wolfram Alpha in your terminal](//developer.run/pic/wa.png)



Usecases are endless:

![Wolfram Alpha in your terminal](//developer.run/pic/wa2.png)



Try it yourself. Here is a simple [script](https://github.com/dmi3/bin/blob/master/wa) called `wa` to work with Wolfram Alpha API. Make sure to configure `APPID`, `VIEWER`, `BG` and `FG` variables before using:

<a name="github" href="https://github.com/dmi3/bin/blob/master/wa">Source on Github</a>

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