WikipediR-package: WikipediR, the MediaWiki API wrapper
Description
WikipediR is a wrapper for the MediaWiki API. It is primarily oriented around the Wikimedia MediaWiki instances, such as Wikipedia - while it could work with other MediaWiki instances, you'd probably find it painful.Details
ll{
Package: WikipediR
Type: Package
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2014-04-26
License: MIT
}
The package aims to include wrappers for most of the 'primary' API read functions in MediaWikiAfter constructing a connection object using wiki_con(), plug this into the function that corresponds to the API functionality you're looking for, whether that be diff generation (wiki_diff()), content retrieval (wiki_revision()) or user information (wiki_user()).