Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/zanderhackbot


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zanderhackbot
Operator:

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 :

Discussion
Could you confirm the the User_Agent details are OK please ?

What is the purpose of this bot? βcommand 01:15, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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)

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 ?

— HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 11:54, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
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