Retrieve the page content of a random MediaWiki page
wiki_page retrieves the DOM of a particular MediaWiki page, as a HTML blob inside a JSON object.
random_page( language = NULL, project = NULL, domain = NULL, namespaces = NULL, as_wikitext = FALSE, limit = 1, clean_response = FALSE, ... )
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.namespaces: The namespaces to consider pages from. By default, pages from any namespace are considered; alternately, a numeric vector of accepted namespaces (which are described here) can be provided, and only pages within those namespaces will be considered.as_wikitext: whether to retrieve the wikimarkup (TRUE) or the HTML (FALSE). Set to FALSE by default.limit: the number of pages to return. 1 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.## Not run: #A page from Wikipedia wp_content <- random_page("en","wikipedia") #A page from the mainspace on Wikipedia wp_article_content <- random_page("en","wikipedia", namespaces = 0) ## End(Not run)
page_content for retrieving the content of a specific page, revision_diff for retrieving 'diffs' between revisions, revision_content for retrieving the text of specified revisions.