Thanks Sam!
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Colonna Francois[snip]
<colonna@lct.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>
> Le jeudi 14 mai 2009 à 09:19 -0400, Brad Jorsch a écrit :
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:12:06AM +0200, Colonna Francois wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > is it possible to get directly on disk the xml file produced by the api
>> > command below
>> >
>> > api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&gaplimit=1000&format=xml
>> >
>> > using lynx -dump for example (I don't know how to do it) or an other
>> > batch mode procedure ?
>>
>> Use wget, curl, or any other program that downloads a URL and saves it
>> to disk.
>
> I tried wget
>
>
> http://localhost/~wiki/mediawiki/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&gaplimit=100&format=xml
>
> it results in :
The & character has a special meaning on the command-line. Try
putting quotation marks around the url, so
wget 'http://localhost/~wiki/mediawiki/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&gaplimit=100&format=xml'
Sam
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