mediawiki from the shell

Basic set of scripts to login/out and fetch/edit pages on a mediawiki site from the command line using curl.

Configuration

Set the option in wiki-config as required for your site and username.

Usage example

$ ./login

$ ./fetch 'User:MyUser/sandbox' > page.mw
$ vi page.mw
$ ./edit 'User:MyUser/sandbox' page.mw

$ ./fetch 'Main_Page' > mainpage.mw
$ vi mainpage.mw
$ ./edit 'Main_Page' mainpage.mw

$ ./logout

See also

MediaWiki API documentation at:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

Credits

Initial example taken from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code/Bash

Updated and split into separate scripts by Matthew Newton, October 2014.