[Mediawiki-api] how to use api commands in batch mode ?

[Rezuan Asrah]

Thanks Sam!

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Colonna Francois
> <colonna at 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 :
> [snip]
>
> 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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