tidywikidatar (version 0.6.1)

tw_get_wikipedia_base_api_url: Facilitates the creation of MediaWiki API base URLs

Description

Mostly used internally

Usage

tw_get_wikipedia_base_api_url(
  url = NULL,
  title = NULL,
  language = tidywikidatar::tw_get_language(),
  action = "query",
  type = "page"
)

Value

A character vector of base urls to be used with the MediaWiki API.

Arguments

url

A character vector with the full URL to one or more Wikipedia pages. If given, title and language can be left empty.

title

Title of a Wikipedia page or final parts of its url. If given, url can be left empty, but language must be provided.

language

Defaults to language set with tw_set_language(); if not set, "en". Use "all_available" to keep all languages. For available language values, see the dedicated Wikimedia page.

action

Defaults to "query". Usually either "query" or "parse". In principle, any valid action value, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php

type

Defaults to "page". Either "page" or "category".

Examples

tw_get_wikipedia_base_api_url(title = "Margaret Mead", language = "en")
tw_get_wikipedia_base_api_url(
  title = "Category:American women anthropologists",
  type = "category",
  language = "en"
)