Mediawiki-api January 2017

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MediaWiki API in specific usage
by Support Technique 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

Hello, I'm developing a Joomla 3! plugin based on mediawiki API. The goal is importing all datas (titles and description or definitions) from Wiki database to a Joomla website database. Cause the Joomla! website will be finally used as a dictionnary. Now can you tell me how to proceed, please? Unfortunately, the available tutorials on MediaWiki are not so clear on this usage situation. Thanks for answer me as soon as you can! -- Logo Internis Group <http://www.internis-group.com/> *Modeste EKAMBI* Senior Software Engineer - Internis Group Agence experte des projets web et IT - Développement sur mesure - Développement web et mobile, d'applications et sites internet Skype: internis.group Téléphone: 699-789-772 / 679-998-516 Mail: support(a)internis-group.com Blog: http://blog.internis-group.com Site: http://www.internis-group.com <http://internis-group.com>

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How to expand templates, but leave comments
by Kevin Dunn 20 Jan '26

20 Jan '26

Hi there, I'm using the API to extract the raw wiki text from my pages, using the "?action=query&titles=Main_Page&export&exportnowrap" syntax. That works perfectly. Now I would like to get the templates expanded out in the result, so I use: "?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=revisions&rvlimit=1&rvprop=content&rvexpandtemplates", which does the job, as expected, but it also strips out the comments. My problem is that the comments are meaningful to me (I use them to help process the wiki text in subsequent steps). Is there a way to expand templates with the API, but leave the comments intact? Thanks, Kevin

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Need to extract abstract of a wikipedia page
by aditya srinivas 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

Hello, I am writing a Java program to extract the abstract of the wikipedia page given the title of the wikipedia page. I have done some research and found out that the abstract with be in rvsection=0 So for example if I want the abstract of 'Eiffel Tower" wiki page then I am querying using the api in the following way. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Eiffel… and parse the XML data which we get and take the wikitext in the tag <rev xml:space="preserve"> which represents the abstract of the wikipedia page. But this wiki text also contains the infobox data which I do not need. I would like to know if there is anyway in which I can remove the infobox data and get only the wikitext related to the page's abstract Or if there is any alternative method by which I can get the abstract of the page directly. Looking forward to your help. Thanks in Advance Aditya Uppu

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[Mediawiki-api-announce] Deprecation of list=allusers 'recenteditcount' result property
by Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

When list=allusers is used with auactiveusers, a property 'recenteditcount' is returned in the result. In bug 67301[1] it was pointed out that this property is including various other logged actions, and so should really be named something like "recentactions". Gerrit change 130093,[2] merged today, adds the "recentactions" result property. "recenteditcount" is also returned for backwards compatability, but will be removed at some point during the MediaWiki 1.25 development cycle. Any clients using this property should be updated to use the new property name. The new property will be available on WMF wikis with 1.24wmf12, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap for the schedule. [1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67301 [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130093/ -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list Mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce

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Editing a page from Bash: copy-pasted token works, parsed token value from API doesnt
by geoffreydebelie 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Hi everyone, I'm trying to login using the MediaWiki API. This works if I copy the token manually in the code every time again. Using the token from the variable DOESNT work, but copy pasting the same token into the TOKEN= assignment (into the source code) DOES work! After that, I'm trying to edit a page. I have the same problem with the edit token. It cannot be read from the variable, unless I copied the token manually to the variable in the source code :( I know I'm almost there, but the tokens are getting in the way. Why doesn't it work when I'm parsing the token from the API? When I copy-paste the same token into the source code directly it works.. The token looks the same to me! Is curl getting in the way here? I tried several things, like dropping the last \ from the token and then passing it to curl, but to no avail. Output of the script when it doesn't work (reading the token from the TOKEN variable when parsing from the API): $ ./clientcode.sh UTF8 check: ☠ Logging into https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php as Smile4ever... Get login token... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 112 100 112 0 0 649 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 666 { "batchcomplete": "", "query": { "tokens": { "logintoken": "9b9a82c7ac27cf9573e1c7cb7419cf53589041ec+\\" } } } Login token is "9b9a82c7ac27cf9573e1c7cb7419cf53589041ec+\\" ----- Logging in... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 302 100 142 100 160 829 935 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 958 { "error": { "code": "badtoken", "info": "Invalid CSRF token.", "*": "See https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage." }, "servedby": "mw1288" } Unable to login, is logintoken "9b9a82c7ac27cf9573e1c7cb7419cf53589041ec+\\" correct? ========================================== Output of the script when it does work (reading the token from the TOKEN variable when using a fixed value for the login token): $ ./clientcode.sh UTF8 check: ☠ Logging into https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php as Smile4ever... Get login token... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 111 100 111 0 0 642 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 660 { "batchcomplete": "", "query": { "tokens": { "logintoken": "7bfac90f99869aeb77fee2646d0022f1589040d3+\\" } } } Login token is 3e929f9275d81f12a1f7c93e1beec99f589040b4+\ ----- Logging in... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 224 100 76 100 148 36 71 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 72 { "clientlogin": { "status": "PASS", "username": "Smile4ever" } } Successfully logged in as Smile4ever, STATUS is "PASS" Script: #!/usr/bin/env bash #Needs curl USERNAME="Smile4ever" USERPASS="******" WIKIAPI="https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php" cookie_jar="wikicj" #Will store file in wikifile echo "UTF8 check: ☠" #################login echo "Logging into $WIKIAPI as $USERNAME..." ############### #Login part 1 #printf "%s" "Logging in (1/2)..." echo "Get login token..." CR=$(curl -S \ --location \ --retry 2 \ --retry-delay 5\ --cookie $cookie_jar \ --cookie-jar $cookie_jar \ --user-agent "Curl Shell Script" \ --keepalive-time 60 \ --header "Accept-Language: en-us" \ --header "Connection: keep-alive" \ --compressed \ --request "GET" "${WIKIAPI}?action=query&meta=tokens&type=login&format=json") echo "$CR" | jq . rm login.json echo "$CR" > login.json TOKEN=$(jq '.query.tokens.logintoken' login.json) #TOKEN="${TOKEN//\"/}" #replace double quote by nothing #Remove carriage return! #printf "%s" "$TOKEN" > token.txt #TOKEN=$(cat token.txt | sed 's/\r$//') #TOKEN="$(<token.txt)" #TOKEN="${TOKEN//\+\\/\+}" #replace +\ by + #echo -n $TOKEN > token.txt #TOKEN="${TOKEN//\+\\/%2b%5c}" #replace +\ by %2b%5c #TOKEN="33bf0c310b22a836be6b28905470d3a1589031da+\\" #TOKEN="24949330db743d9af74e7e56f2b523725890407b+\\" if [ "$TOKEN" == "null" ]; then echo "Getting a login token failed." exit else echo "Login token is $TOKEN" echo "-----" fi ############### #Login part 2 echo "Logging in..." CR=$(curl -S \ --location \ --cookie $cookie_jar \ --cookie-jar $cookie_jar \ --user-agent "Curl Shell Script" \ --keepalive-time 60 \ --header "Accept-Language: en-us" \ --header "Connection: keep-alive" \ --compressed \ --data-urlencode "username=${USERNAME}" \ --data-urlencode "password=${USERPASS}" \ --data-urlencode "rememberMe=1" \ --data-urlencode "logintoken=${TOKEN}" \ --data-urlencode "loginreturnurl=http://google.be" \ --request "POST" "${WIKIAPI}?action=clientlogin&format=json") echo "$CR" | jq . STATUS=$(echo $CR | jq '.clientlogin.status') if [[ $STATUS == *"PASS"* ]]; then echo "Successfully logged in as $USERNAME, STATUS is $STATUS." echo "-----" else echo "Unable to login, is logintoken ${TOKEN} correct?" exit fi ############### #Get edit token echo "Fetching edit token..." CR=$(curl -S \ --location \ --cookie $cookie_jar \ --cookie-jar $cookie_jar \ --user-agent "Curl Shell Script" \ --keepalive-time 60 \ --header "Accept-Language: en-us" \ --header "Connection: keep-alive" \ --compressed \ --request "POST" "${WIKIAPI}?action=query&meta=tokens&format=json") echo "$CR" | jq . echo "$CR" > edittoken.json EDITTOKEN=$(jq '.query.tokens.csrftoken' edittoken.json) rm edittoken.json EDITTOKEN="${EDITTOKEN//\"/}" #replace double quote by nothing #EDITTOKEN="${EDITTOKEN//\+\\/\+}" #replace +\ by + if [[ $EDITTOKEN == *"+\\"* ]]; then echo "Edit token is: $EDITTOKEN" else echo "Edit token not set." exit fi ############### #Make a test edit #EDITTOKEN="d55014d69f1a8c821073bb6724aced7658904018+\\" CR=$(curl -S \ --location \ --cookie $cookie_jar \ --cookie-jar $cookie_jar \ --user-agent "Curl Shell Script" \ --keepalive-time 60 \ --header "Accept-Language: en-us" \ --header "Connection: keep-alive" \ --compressed \ --data-urlencode "title=Gebruiker:Smile4ever/test4" \ --data-urlencode "appendtext={{nocat|2017|01|31}}" \ --data-urlencode "token=${EDITTOKEN}" \ --request "POST" "${WIKIAPI}?action=edit&format=json") echo "$CR" | jq . Kind regards, Geoffrey De Belie

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Re: [Mediawiki-api] Logging in to use action=edit from within Bash
by Martin Domdey 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

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Logging in to use action=edit from within Bash
by geoffreydebelie 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Hi, I'm trying to append text to a page as logged in MediaWiki user from within Bash. I tried this, but it's very outdated: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code/Bash I had updated it to this: http://pastebin.com/e9LF3UDa I want to use this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit#Editing_pages -> appendtext Can someone please provide me with at least a partial solution? I'm lost. Kind regards, Geoffrey De Belie

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Localized (translated) version of sections
by Max Vlasov 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Hi again, Is there a way to get a localized version of section names of an article, for example "See also"? Currently my question is related to section names, but in general I would like to get language equivalent for other semantic entities. Are there docs about such things? I tried to find but failed. Thanks, Max

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parse feature inconsistency
by Max Vlasov 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Hi, Trying to find a way to extract links from a wikipedia see also section, noticed a stackoverflow answer ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37396367/how-to-extract-links-from-see-a… ), suggesting parsing sections first and then parsing "see also" separately. It had a Chicago working example, but when I try to do the same with the "Set theory" article, I get an empty result, so the url https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=sections&page=Set_Theo… returns an empty list of section while there are obviously many sections in this article. Is this expected? Thanks Max

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Some Issues on API:Opensearch
by byeh＠yahoo-inc.com 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

Hi, I am Ben, a developer in Taiwan. While I was developing some services based on API:Opensearch, I found that the response of the same url request can be either Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese. To be more specific, I would love to know how can I determine the response language form from API layer ( Or other factors that may have impact ) ? Since the document of API:Opensearch doesn't seem to take language into consideration, many thanks :)

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