Connector for crawling Wikis
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Key: CONNECTORS-256
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-256
Project: ManifoldCF
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: ManifoldCF 0.4
Reporter: Karl Wright
Assignee: Karl Wright
Fix For: ManifoldCF 0.4
People have been trying to crawl wikis with ManifoldCF, but using the generic
crawler is not a good way to do this. Instead, it looks like we really could
use a wiki connector, which would understand the wiki API and thus crawl wiki
content quickly and effectively.
Some pertinent API references follow:
I don't know if it is possible to link to a wiki document with just the pageid,
but it is possible to to get the url for the referring pageid via api:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&pageids=27697087&inprop=url
It is possible to get the metadata of a document using the pages id (instead of
title) directly:
Titel ->
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=API&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content
PageID ->
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&pageids=27697087&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content
- There needs to be some notion of an overall list of pages:
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Allpages
- Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apfrom=Kre&aplimit=5
- Metadata information (author and pub date) also needs to be separated out in
some way:
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties#Revisions:_Example
- Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=API|Main%20Page&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content
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