jidanni(a)jidanni.org schreef:
To keep one's website's links fresh, one uses
a linkchecker to detect
broken links. But how is a linkchecker to check if a wikipedia article
exists, given that this returns
$ HEAD -H User-Agent: http://*.wikipedia.org/wiki/*|sed q
200 OK
for any article, non-existent and existent, and even the
'our servers are experiencing technical problems' message.
(-H avoids 403 Forbidden)
Should I make a list of the wikipedia URLs I want to check and send
each to a API URL for it? Will this API URL return a "more correct"
HTTP code?
Or must I do something like
$ GET $URL|grep 'wiki.* does not currently have an article called .*,
maybe it was deleted' && echo $URL Broken
First, save up a list of
articles you wanna check. When you've got a
couple hundred of them (or have run out of articles to check), issue an
API request like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Dog|WP:WAX|Jidann…
It returns some basic data (namespace and existence) for every article.
For production use, you probably want pure XML, so use &format=xml .
Alternatively, you can use format=json or format=php .
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)