Sourcerer Implementation Notes

Using MediaWiki api.php

1. Hello World!
2. Return page titles for a specified category
3. Return template contents from a wiki page
4. Wiki built-in templates

Some Basic Tasks

Help Page

http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/api.php

JSON Page Content Dump

http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=User:Sourcerer&prop=revisions&rvprop=content

List first twenty of Consecutive geohash achievement

http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Consecutive_geohash_achievement&cmlimit=20

List twenty more of Consecutive geohash achievement

http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Consecutive_geohash_achievement&cmcontinue=page%7C323030392d30332d31362035322030%7C17773&cmlimit=20

PHP Code - List first twenty of Consecutive geohash achievement - Command line application

<?php
   $html = file_get_contents('http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Consecutive_geohash_achievement&cmlimit=20');
   echo $html;
?>

PHP Code - As above but use JSON

<?php
  $json     = file_get_contents('http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Consecutive_geohash_achievement&cmlimit=20');
  $readable = json_decode($json, true);
  print_r($readable);
?>

PHP Expedition as JSON

<?php
  $json     = file_get_contents('http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=2015-02-07_52_1&prop=revisions&rvprop=content');
  $readable = json_decode($json, true);
  print_r($readable);
?>