Facilitates the creation of MediaWiki API base URLs — tw_get_wikipedia_base_api

Mostly used internally

Usage

tw_get_wikipedia_base_api_url(
  url = NULL,
  title = NULL,
  language = tidywikidatar::tw_get_language(),
  action = "query",
  type = "page"
)

Arguments

url: A character vector with the full URL to one or more Wikipedia pages. If given, title and language can be left empty.
title: Title of a Wikipedia page or final parts of its url. If given, url can be left empty, but language must be provided.
language: Two-letter language code used to define the Wikipedia version to use. Defaults to language set with tw_set_language(); if not set, "en". If url given, this can be left empty.
action: Defaults to "query". Usually either "query" or "parse". In principle, any valid action value, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php
type: Defaults to "page". Either "page" or "category".

Value

A character vector of base urls to be used with the MediaWiki API

Examples

tw_get_wikipedia_base_api_url(title = "Margaret Mead", language = "en")
#> [1] "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&redirects=true&format=json&titles=Margaret%20Mead"
tw_get_wikipedia_base_api_url(
  title = "Category:American women anthropologists",
  type = "category",
  language = "en"
)
#> [1] "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&redirects=true&format=json&cmtitle=Category%3AAmerican%20women%20anthropologists&list=categorymembers"