https://github.com/ironholds/wikipedir

R's MediaWiki API client library
https://github.com/ironholds/wikipedir

api-client api-wrapper mediawiki r

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R's MediaWiki API client library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ironholds/wikipedir
• Owner: Ironholds
• License: other
• Created: 2014-03-30T01:05:50.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-05T17:43:33.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-30T21:06:44.287Z (25 days ago)
• Topics: api-client, api-wrapper, mediawiki, r
• Language: R
• Homepage:
• Size: 192 KB
• Stars: 71
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 18
• Open Issues: 12
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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WikipediR

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An R API wrapper for MediaWiki, optimised for the Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki instances, such as Wikipedia.

__Author:__ Os Keyes


__License:__ [MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)


__Status:__ Stable

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Description

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_WikipediR_ is a wrapper around the MediaWiki API, optimised for the Wikimedia Foundation's production sites, such as Wikipedia. It is written in and for R, a statistical environment and associated programming language in heavy use by HCI researchers that, somehow, escaped having an API wrapper until now.

Installation

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For the most recent version, on CRAN:

    install.packages("WikipediR")

    

For the development version:

    library(devtools)

    devtools::install_github("ironholds/WikipediR")

    

Limitations

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WikipediR currently lacks:

* Quite a few possible API calls;

* Direct authentication, through MediaWiki or OAuth.

These issues will be solved in time; if there is a particular feature you want, open an issue here on github: I can't prioritise if I don't know what people are trying to do :).

Dependencies

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* R. Doy.

* [httr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr) and its dependencies.