recent_changes {WikipediR}

Retrieves entries from the RecentChanges feed

Description

wiki_recentchanges retrieves a stream of entries from Special:RecentChanges, with a variety of associated metadata and filtering (of both entries *and* that metadata.

Usage

recent_changes(
  language = NULL,
  project = NULL,
  domain = NULL,
  properties = c("user", "userid", "comment", "parsedcomment", "flags", "timestamp",
    "title", "ids", "sizes", "redirect", "loginfo", "tags", "sha1"),
  type = c("edit", "external", "new", "log"),
  tag = NULL,
  dir = "newer",
  limit = 50,
  top = 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.

properties

Properties you're trying to retrieve about each entry, Options include "user" (the username of the person responsible for that entry), "userid" (the userID of said person), "comment" (the edit summary associated with the entry), "parsedcomment" (the same, but parsed, generating HTML from any wikitext in that comment), "flags" (whether the revision was 'minor' or not), "timestamp", "title" (the name of the page the entry affected), "ids" (the page id, along with the old and new revision IDs when applicable) "sizes" (the size, in uncompressed bytes, of the entry, and, in the case of revisions, the size of the edit it displaced), "tags" (any tags associated with the revision) and "loginfo" (applicable only to log entries, and consisting of log ID numbers, log types and actions, and so on) and "sha1" (the SHA-1 hash of the revision text).

type

The type of entry you want to retrieve; can be any permutation of "edit" (edits to existing pages), "external" (external actions that impact on the project - primarily wikidata changes), "new" (the creation of new pages) and "log" (log entries). By default, all of these entry types are included.

tag

Only return items with particular "tags", such as "mobile edit". NULL by default.

dir

Should it go from newest to oldest ("newer"), or oldest to newest ("older")? By default, set to "newer".

limit

The number of entries you'd like to return. By default, set to 50, which is also the maximum number per-request for logged-out users.

top

Should the request only return "top" entries - in other words, the most recent entry on a page? 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.