MediaWiki Awk API

by User:Green Cardamom at en.wikipedia.org May 2015 (1.0) MIT license

A library of functions in GNU Awk for accessing the MediaWiki API. For building applications in Awk that use the MediaWiki API. Supports read/download API functions only, not write.

There are 3 library files and 1 example program (backlinks.awk).

Library files

http2var.awk

Networking code. Loads a web page to a string variable.

json2var.awk

Json parser. Given a json file, return a single variable with the values needed.
Depending on the API call, customize a couple lines in parse_value() to extract the 
fields you want.

mwapiutils.awk

General utility functions. 
Most with generic application, not just for MediaWiki API.

Demonstration program

backlinks.awk

This shows all the backlinks (ie. "Special:What Links Here") for a page. 
It also shows how to use the "continue" command to load > 500 items.

To run:

    awk -f backlinks.awk

A complete application, "Backlinks Watchlist" is at https://github.com/greencardamom/Backlinks-Watchlist