I have a wiki setup to archive text documents. I've got my importing scripts working well but I need a way to export out the raw article text and feed it to a shell script. It can be fed to it on standard input or saved to a temporary file and the file name passed as an argument. What I would eventually like to do is use a template to create a link to the special page to easily feed it the page name to be processed. My PHP programming experience is a little limited. Could someone help me at least get a working framework? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
You could use the 'raw' view of an article to easily grab the contents of the page like this:
/index.php?title=your_title&action=raw
I'd just write a quick perl script to do a web query using an URL similar to the above and feed it to your script.
Tim
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael Steidley Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 1:10 PM To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] SpecialPage to feed article text to shell script
I have a wiki setup to archive text documents. I've got my importing scripts working well but I need a way to export out the raw article text and feed it to a shell script. It can be fed to it on standard input or saved to a temporary file and the file name passed as an argument. What I would eventually like to do is use a template to create a link to the special page to easily feed it the page name to be processed. My PHP programming experience is a little limited. Could someone help me at least get a working framework? Any input would be greatly appreciated. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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