m_XtoolsInfo {wikiTools}

Gets various information from a Wikimedia page

Description

Obtains information in JSON format about an article in the Wikimedia project or NULL on errors. Use the wmflabs API. The XTools Page API endpoints offer data related to a single page. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/XTools/API/Page. The URL of the API starts with 'https://xtools.wmcloud.org/api/page/'

Usage

m_XtoolsInfo(
  article,
  infotype = c("articleinfo", "prose", "links"),
  project = "en.wikipedia.org",
  redirects = FALSE
)

Arguments

article

The title of the article to search. Only one article is allowed.

infotype

The type of information to request: articleinfo, prose, links. You also can type 'all' to retrieve all. Note that the API also offer theses options: top_editors, assessments, bot_data and automated_edits.

project

The Wikimedia project, defaults en.wikipedia.org.

redirects

If redirects==TRUE, then the information is obtained of the destiny of the page. In that case, then the "original" element of the returned list contains the original page, and the "page" element the destiny page. Also, if infotype=='links, the sum of the in-links of all redirections is assigned to links_in_count.

Value

A list with the information about the article.

Author(s)

Angel Zazo, Department of Computer Science and Automatics, University of Salamanca

Examples

## Not run: 
x <-  m_XtoolsInfo(article="Cervantes", infotype="articleinfo", project="es.wikipedia.org")
xx <- m_XtoolsInfo(article="Cervantes", infotype="articleinfo", project="es.wikipedia.org",
                   redirects=TRUE)

y <-  m_XtoolsInfo(article="Miguel de Cervantes", infotype="links", project="es.wikipedia.org")
yy <- m_XtoolsInfo(article="Cervantes", infotype="links", project="es.wikipedia.org",
                    redirects=TRUE)
z  <- m_XtoolsInfo(article="Miguel de Cervantes", infotype="all", project="es.wikipedia.org")
zz <- m_XtoolsInfo(article="Cervantes", infotype="all", project="es.wikipedia.org",
                       redirects=TRUE)

## End(Not run)