page_content function

Retrieves MediaWiki page content

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

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.

Examples

## Not run:

#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")
## End(Not run)

See Also

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