Query the MediaWiki Action API using a vector of Wikipedia pages

These functions help you to build a query for the MediaWiki Action API if you already have a set of pages that you wish to investigate. These functions can be combined with query_page_properties to choose which properties to return for the passed pages.

Usage

query_by_title(.req, title)

query_by_pageid(.req, pageid)

query_by_revid(.req, revid)

Arguments

.req

A wiki_action_request query to modify

title

A character vector of page titles

pageid

A character or numeric vector of page ids

revid

A character or numeric vector of revision ids

Value

A request object of type pages/query/action_api/httr2_request. To perform the query, pass the object to next_batch or retrieve_all

Details

If you don't already know which pages you wish to examine, you can build a query to find pages that meet certain criteria using query_list_pages or query_generate_pages.

See also

gracefully()

Examples

# Retrieve the categories for Charles Harpur's Wikipedia page
 resp <- wiki_action_request() %>%
  query_by_title("Charles Harpur") %>%
  query_page_properties("categories") %>%
  gracefully(next_batch)