Table of Contents CL-MediaWiki Project URL: Supported API Example Dependencies Optional Dependencies News Authors

CL-MediaWiki

This is a project to help make the MediaWiki API accessible and easy to use from Common Lisp. While this project is currently sparsely populated, what commands are there should work. Patches Welcome!

Project URL:

https://github.com/bobbysmith007/cl-mediawiki

Supported API

• Edit
  • create-page - Creates a new wiki page
  • add-new-page-section - adds a new section to the specified wiki page
  • append-text-to-page / prepend-text-to-page - adds text at the top or bottom of the specified page
  • set-page-content - sets a pages content to the specified text
  • regex-replace-all - replace all instances of regex with replacement on a target-page. There is an option for passing what the page content should be if it does not exist
• Query
  • token-bag - an object to store action tokens with a time stamp (to prevent overriding someone else's change
  • get-action-tokens - requests and returns a token-bag for an edit/move/delete
  • get-page-content - returns the content of the most recent revision of a page
  • get-page-info - returns the properties of a page as an alist
  • get-revisions - returns revision history of a page, including contents and diffs
  • get-links - returns outgoing links from a page
  • pages-that-embed - returns a list of pages that embed another page/template
  • recent-changes - a list of recent changes to the wiki
  • user-contribs - a list of contributions from a specific user
• Conditions
  • Errors
    • media-wiki-error - signaled when media wiki returns an error

Example

 ;; Gets the content of page "Pigment" from wikipedia
 (with-mediawiki ("http://en.wikipedia.org/w")
    (get-page-content "Pigment"))

 ;; Gets the content of page "Pigment" from a private mediawiki that requires authentication
 (with-mediawiki ((make-instance 'mediawiki
				 :url "http://wiki.yourdomain.net"
				 :auth (list "user" "pass")))
    (get-page-content "Pigment"))

 ;; Sets the content of page "Pigment" to be "This is the new content"
 (with-mediawiki (...)
    (set-page-content "Pigment" "This is the new content"))

 ;; Get the ids, user, and size of the last 10 revisions 
 (with-mediawiki ("http://en.wikipedia.org/w")
    (get-revisions "Pigment" :rvprop "ids|user|size" :rvlimit 10))

Dependencies

• Closure-XML
• Drakma

Optional Dependencies

• CL-PPCRE - If you have this installed, there will be a couple more functions available

News

• Hosting Move Announcement
• Blagging about my first in system usage of CL-MediaWiki
• Introductory Blog Post

Authors

• Acceleration.net Donate
  • Russ Tyndall
  • Nathan Bird
  • Ryan Davis
• Alexis Gallagher

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