Pass a list of pages or a category

[zkvvoob]

Hello,

Thank you for developing this script! How difficult would it be to make it accept either a list of page ids or a category name?

EDIT: I've been playing around with a local copy of your script. If I understand it correctly, the URL should look something like that: /api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&format=json&cmpageid=474

So, I've tried to tweak the code to this:

url_allpages = url + "/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&format=json&cmpageid=" + str(pageOnly) using the pageOnly parameter to pass a category id. And then

for page in data['query']['categorymembers']:

However, it doesn't seem to work - no errors are returned, but also no html files are downloaded, even though the api query returns 10.

[tpokorra]

Please commit your attempt to a git branch, and then I can have a look at it and debug it.

EDIT: I got caught by the challenge, I am trying it now myself...

[tpokorra]

see the link to my commit above. that works for me:

python3 exportMediaWiki2Html.py https://wiki.hostsharing.net 22

I get all the pages related to this category: https://wiki.hostsharing.net/index.php?title=Kategorie:Einstieg_bei_Hostsharing

[tpokorra]

Perhaps this line caused your problems:

 if (pageOnly > -1) and (page['pageid'] != pageOnly):

now that the pageOnly was your category id.

[zkvvoob]

That's brilliant, @tpokorra! I just tested your amended script on my wiki and it downloaded all pages from the category I passed on to it.

Thank you so much!