WikipediR (version 1.3.0)

page_content: Retrieves MediaWiki page content

Description

wiki_page retrieves the DOM of a particular MediaWiki page, as a HTML blob inside a JSON object.

Usage

page_content(language = NULL, project = NULL, domain = NULL, page_name,
  page_id = NULL, as_wikitext = FALSE, clean_response = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

language

The language code of the project you wish to query, if appropriate.

project

The project you wish to query ("wikiquote"), if appropriate. Should be provided in conjunction with language.

domain

as an alternative to a language and project combination, you can also provide a domain ("rationalwiki.org") to the URL constructor, allowing for the querying of non-Wikimedia MediaWiki instances.

page_name

The title of the page you want to retrieve

page_id

the pageID of the page you want to retrieve. Set to NULL by default, and an alternative to page_name; if both are provided, page_id will be used.

as_wikitext

whether to retrieve the wikimarkup (TRUE) or the HTML (FALSE). Set to FALSE by default.

clean_response

whether to do some basic sanitising of the resulting data structure. Set to FALSE by default.

...

further arguments to pass to httr's GET.

See Also

revision_diff for retrieving 'diffs' between revisions, revision_content for retrieving the text of specified revisions.

Examples

#Content from a Wikimedia project
wp_content <- page_content("en","wikipedia", page_name = "Aaron Halfaker")

#Content by ID
wp_content <- page_content("en", "wikipedia", page_id = 12)

#Content from a non-Wikimedia project
rw_content <- page_content(domain = "rationalwiki.org", page_name = "New Age")