Hi Kelly,
On 7/27/07, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a FAQ or more docs on MediaWiki's API? The info I found:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
seems minimal? My questions:
Yes, that is everything we have so far. You are more than welcome to edit http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API and make it better :)
% I use snownews and need a single URL to see my watchlist on my favorite MediaWiki, but this fails w/ an "internal server error":
http://wiki.lspace.org/api.php?action=login&lgname=kellyterryjones&l...
I can get to my watchlist using:
curl -c cookies.txt -O 'http://wiki.lspace.org/api.php?action=login&lgname=kellyterryjones&l...
curl -b cookies.txt -O 'http://wiki.lspace.org/api.php?action=feedwatchlist'
but it's a two-step process, and that won't work w/ snownews.
We should at some point add an ability to login and get a watchlist in one call. My biggest concern is that is not very secure - passing your password in the url instead of the post.
% Can I edit pages w/ the MediaWiki API or is it for queries only?
Not at present, working on that.
% Is /query.php dead on newer Wikis? These URLs gives me 404 errors:
http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/query.php?what=allpages http://wiki.lspace.org/query.php?what=allpages
even though the equivalent works on Wikipedia:
query.php is an extension - it is up to the site to enable that extension. All mediawiki sites have it enabled.
% How do I convice a MediaWiki that I'm a bot (and thus increase my aplimit)?
Your account must get a bot flag on that wiki.
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