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WikipediR (version 1.1.0)

A MediaWiki API wrapper

Description

A wrapper for the MediaWiki API, aimed particularly at the Wikimedia 'production' wikis, such as Wikipedia. It can be used to retrieve page text, information about users or the history of pages, and elements of the category tree.

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install.packages('WikipediR')

Monthly Downloads

4,442

Version

1.1.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Oliver Keyes

Last Published

December 6th, 2014

Functions in WikipediR (1.1.0)

wiki_usercontribs

Retrieve user contributions

wiki_call

Basic calling function

wikis

Valid Wikimedia projects

wiki_con

Connector-generating function for WikipediR

wiki_diff

Generates a "diff" between a pair of revisions

wiki_pagecats

Retrieves categories associated with a page.

wiki_revision

Retrieves MediaWiki revisions

wiki_page

Retrieves MediaWiki page content

wiki_catpages

Retrieves a list of category members.

wiki_parse

response parser

wiki_recentchanges

Retrieves entries from the RecentChanges feed

WikipediR-package

WikipediR, the MediaWiki API wrapper

wiki_timestamp

Timestamp conversion function

wiki_userinfo

Retrieve user information

RDataRebuild

Rebuild and update the .RData file used in wiki_con