On 10/3/07, Tony Sidaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I started coding against API a few months ago it seemed to be a
> lot less complete than it is now.
>
> Sometimes documentation has been added ahead of availability of the function.
>
> Is there a current list of available features?
>
The API entry point on http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php

> I am particularly interested in list=search, action=login and (most of
> all) editing via the API.
>
Search doesn't work with the lucene backend that wikimedia uses. Login
works for me.

> Currently my code is editing via html forms and scraping the result,
> which is less than ideal.
>
> Last time I tried API login it returned a cookie which was rejected by
> the site when I tried to use it for editing, so I still use the screen
> scraping technique for login.
>
I already use it
<http://infra.ts.wikimedia.org/fisheye/browse/bryan/mwclient/trunk/client.py?r=353>.


Bryan

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