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Build MediaWiki Page URL

Source: R/wikipages.R
wt_wiki_url_build.Rd

Builds a MediaWiki page url from its component parts (wiki name, wiki type, and page title). Supports both static page urls and their equivalent API calls.

Usage

wt_wiki_url_build(
  wiki,
  type = NULL,
  page = NULL,
  api = FALSE,
  action = "parse",
  redirects = TRUE,
  format = "json",
  utf8 = TRUE,
  prop = c("text", "langlinks", "categories", "links", "templates", "images",
    "externallinks", "sections", "revid", "displaytitle", "iwlinks", "properties")
)

Arguments

wiki

(character | list) Either the wiki name or a list with $wiki, $type, and $page (the output of wt_wiki_url_parse()).

type

(character) Wiki type.

page

(character) Wiki page title.

api

(boolean) Whether to return an API call or a static page url (default). If FALSE, all following (API-only) arguments are ignored.

action

(character) See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for supported actions. This function currently only supports "parse".

redirects

(boolean) If the requested page is set to a redirect, resolve it.

format

(character) See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for supported output formats.

utf8

(boolean) If TRUE, encodes most (but not all) non-ASCII characters as UTF-8 instead of replacing them with hexadecimal escape sequences.

prop

(character) Properties to retrieve, either as a character vector or pipe-delimited string. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=parse for supported properties.

Value

a URL (character)

See also

Other MediaWiki functions: wt_wiki_page_parse(), wt_wiki_page(), wt_wiki_url_parse()

Examples

wt_wiki_url_build(wiki = "en", type = "wikipedia", page = "Malus domestica")
#> [1] "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica"
wt_wiki_url_build(
  wt_wiki_url_parse("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica"))
#> [1] "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_domestica"
wt_wiki_url_build("en", "wikipedia", "Malus domestica", api = TRUE)
#> [1] "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?page=Malus_domestica&action=parse&redirects=TRUE&format=json&utf8=TRUE&prop=text%7Clanglinks%7Ccategories%7Clinks%7Ctemplates%7Cimages%7Cexternallinks%7Csections%7Crevid%7Cdisplaytitle%7Ciwlinks%7Cproperties"