Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/zanderhackbot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was

Denied.

zanderhackbot

Operator: Zanderhack (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Ruby

Source code available: See below

Function overview: Performs a query to determine whether a wikipedia page exists or not. I need this so I can a hyperlinks to my website that go to real pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): N/A

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: no editing. it's just a check to see if a page with a given name exists

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function details:

checks to see if a page exists :

  puts "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=#{link.content.gsub(/ /,'_')}&format=xml"
          wiki = Nokogiri::XML(open("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=#{link.content.gsub(/ /,'_')}&format=xml", 'UserAgent'=>'Ruby Page Finder by Martin Szyllo, Morango London, martin@morango.co.uk Phone +44 020 7099-8959').read) 
     
      w = wiki.xpath('//api/query/pages/page')
      if !w.attribute("missing")
         puts "<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#{link.content}>#{link.content}</a>"
      end

Discussion

Could you confirm the the User_Agent details are OK please ?

What is the purpose of this bot? β^_command 01:15, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are various APIs that are more appropriate to query for existence than a HTTP page load; see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query_-_Properties#info_.2F_in and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query_-_Lists#allpages_.2F_ap Josh Parris 01:25, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes , I want to query the names of several thousand geographical points of interest against the wikipedia titles to see if there is an equivalent wikipedia page for each one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=stone_henge

It is too much work to run this many queries manually (from a browser), I need a robot to run this search thousands of times. Please advise how I should do this please ?

Request Expired. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:54, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.