MediaWiki Bulk Page Creator
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A Mediawiki bot written in PHP to create and prefill pages on a Mediawiki website or project. The bot takes input from a formatted input file and creates pages. The Snoopy class library is required to make this bot work.
If you have questions please contact me joncu[NOSPAM]trerATgmail DOTTcom
The program[edit]
<?php
# PHP MediaWiki Bulk Page Creator
# Version: 1.0
# Author: Jonathan Cutrer
# Website: http://jcutrer.com/
#
#
# This program must have the Snoopy Class Library to run.
# http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/
#
#
# Syntax: php bulkinsert.php inputfile.txt
#
#
#
include "./Snoopy-1.2/Snoopy.class.php";
$snoopy = new Snoopy;
$wikiroot = "http://yourwikiurl.com";
$login_url = $wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin";
#$submit_url = $wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin";
# Set the username and password below:
$login_vars['wpName'] = "YourRobotsUsername";
$login_vars['wpPassword'] = "Password";
$login_vars['wpRemember'] = "1";
# Login to Wiki
$snoopy->submit($login_url,$login_vars);
# Open Source File and Read into $contents
$fp = fopen($argv[1], "r");
$contents = fread($fp, filesize($argv[1]));
fclose($fp);
# Split $contents in $pages array
$pages = split("--ENDPAGE--", $contents);
# Loop for each item in pages array
# During loop we will get edit page for token then submit form to create page
foreach ($pages as $key => $value) {
list($title, $body) = split("--ENDTITLE--", $value);
echo $title;
# Get rid of newlines in title
$title = str_replace("\n", "", $title);
# Make Safetitle for URL
$safetitle = rawurlencode(str_replace(" ", "_", $title));
# Lets make sure $title contains something other than null
if ($title) {
# Submit to edit page for $title and get contents into $editpage
if($snoopy->submit($wikiroot . "/index.php?title=" . $safetitle . "&action=edit",$login_vars)) {
$editpage = $snoopy->results;
}
#echo "$editpage";
# Pick out Edit Token into $token
$ans = preg_match('/.*value="(.*?)".*name="wpEditToken"/',$editpage, $matches);
$token = $matches[1];
echo $token;
# Set Post Variables before submitting
$submit_vars['wpTextbox1'] = $body;
$submit_vars['wpSummary'] = "";
$submit_vars['wpSection'] = "";
$submit_vars['wpEdittime'] = "";
$submit_vars['wpMinoredit'] = "1";
$submit_vars['wpSave'] = "Save page";
$submit_vars['wpEditToken'] = $token;
# Submit or Post to create the page
echo "Final Submit goes to:" . $wikiroot . "/index.php?title=" . $safetitle . "&action=submit";
if($snoopy->submit($wikiroot . "/index.php?title=" . $safetitle . "&action=submit", $submit_vars)) {
$finalresults = $snoopy->results;
}
echo $finalresults;
# End If Loop
}
# End ForEach Loop
}
exit;
?>
An example input file[edit]
Sample Page 1 --ENDTITLE-- __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__ This is the body of sample page one. This page was inserted by [http://jcutrer.com/ Mediawiki Bulk Page Creator]. If you find this software useful please give me credit by providing a link to http://jcutrer.com [[Sample Page 2]] --ENDPAGE-- Sample Page 2 --ENDTITLE-- This is sample page 2 with sections == Section 1 == [[Sample Page 1]] == Section 2 == This page was inserted by [http://jcutrer.com/ Mediawiki Bulk Page Creator]. == Section 3 == If you find this software useful please give me credit by providing a link to http://jcutrer.com --ENDPAGE--
Disclaimer & License[edit]
Mediawiki Bulk Page Creator is release under the GPL License.
Install this software at your own risk there is no warranty or support.
Related scripts[edit]
Jonathan Cutrer has developed a proprietary web version of this tool called Mediawiki CSV Import. mwcsvimport is web-based and is more flexible since it takes CSV data as the import source. You can also format the data on import with page templates. The tool generates an XML Import file. Mediawiki CSV Import. Unfortunately the source code is not free nor available online.
Here is a companion script to go with it. It sucks down data from a UseModWiki site in the format usable by this script. Try this: http://www.hudsonic.com/migwiki/bulkget-umw.php.txt
Blatant hack[edit]
Also a blatant hacking for image uploading in bulk:
<?
# PHP MediaWiki Bulk media uploader
# Version: 0
# Author: Anonymous Coward, hacking Jonathon Cutrer
#
# This program must have the Snoopy Class Library to run.
# http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/
#
# Syntax: php bulkmedia.php names_and_filepaths.txt
#
# names_and_filepaths.txt has lines, each with a desired filename en wiki,
# then a space character, then a path to the desired file to upload. no
# spaces in the name or path, left as an exercise.
include "./Snoopy-1.2.3/Snoopy.class.php";
$snoopy = new Snoopy;
$wikiroot = "http://somewikiorother.org/root";
$login_url = $wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin\
";
#$submit_url = $wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlog\
in";
# Set the username and password below:
$login_vars['wpName'] = "botname";
$login_vars['wpPassword'] = "botpass";
$login_vars['wpRemember'] = "1";
# Login to Wiki
$snoopy->submit($login_url,$login_vars);
# Open Source File and Read into $contents
$fp = fopen($argv[1], "r");
$contents = fread($fp, filesize($argv[1]));
fclose($fp);
# Split $contents in $pages array
$pages = split("\n", $contents);
# Loop for each item in pages array
# During loop we will get edit page for token then submit form to create page
echo $wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Upload";
echo "\n";
foreach ($pages as $key => $value) {
list($fname, $fpath)=split(" ", $value);
if ( $fname && $fpath )
{
$formvars['wpDestFile'] = $fname;
$formvars['wpUpload'] ="Upload file";
$formfiles['wpUploadFile'] = $fpath;
$snoopy->set_submit_multipart();
if($snoopy->submit($wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Upload\
", $formvars, $formfiles))
{
echo "success $fname\n";
}
echo $snoopy->results;
}
} # End ForEach Loop
exit;
?>
Another blatant hack[edit]
Another blatant hack for image uploading in bulk, debugged to work with Windows, PHP 5.3, and Mediawiki 1.15.0:
<?PHP
# PHP MediaWiki bulk media (or other file type) uploader
# Version: 0
# Author: Ejcaputo hacking Anonymous Coward, hacking Jonathon Cutrer
#
# This program must have the Snoopy Class Library to run.
# http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/
#
# Syntax: php bulkmedia.php names_and_filepaths.txt
#
# names_and_filepaths.txt has lines, each with a desired file to upload,
# then a pipe character, then a path to the desired filename in wiki, then a
# pipe character, then a file comment. The last two items are optional, default
# values will be used if they are not present.
#
# path to upload|dest filename|comment
include "./Snoopy.class.php";
$snoopy = new Snoopy;
$wikiroot = "http://wiki.yours.xyz/wiki";
$login_url = $wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin\n";
#$submit_url = $wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin\n";
# Set the username and password below:
$login_vars['wpName'] = "yourBotUsername";
$login_vars['wpPassword'] = "password";
$login_vars['wpRemember'] = "1";
$login_vars['wpLoginattempt'] = "1";
# Login to Wiki
$snoopy->submit($login_url,$login_vars);
##echo $snoopy->results;
# Open Source File and Read into $contents
$fp = fopen($argv[1], "r");
$contents = fread($fp, filesize($argv[1]));
fclose($fp);
# Split $contents in $pages array
$pages = split("\r\n", $contents); ## use "\n" for Linux
# Loop for each item in pages array
# During loop we will get edit page for token then submit form to create page
echo $wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Upload";
echo "\n";
foreach ($pages as $key => $value) {
$lineParts = split("\|", $value); # get path components
$numParts = count($lineParts);
$fpath=$lineParts[0];
if($numParts < 3) {
$descr = $fpath . "<br />" . date("Y-m-d H:i:s",filemtime($fpath));
} else {
$descr = $lineParts[2];
}
if($numParts < 2) {
$fname = basename($fpath);
} else {
$fname = $lineParts[1];
}
if ( $fname && $fpath && is_readable($fpath))
{
$formvars = array();
$formfiles = array();
$formvars['wpSourceType'] = "file";
$formvars['wpDestFile'] = $fname;
$formvars['wpUploadDescription'] = $descr;
$formvars['wpIgnoreWarning'] = "true";
$formvars['wpUpload'] = "Upload file";
$formfiles['wpUploadFile'] = $fpath;
$snoopy->set_submit_multipart();
if($snoopy->submit($wikiroot . "/index.php?title=Special:Upload\n", $formvars, $formfiles))
{
echo "success: $fname ($fpath)\n";
echo " filemtime: ".date("Ymd-His",filemtime($fpath));
}
else
{
echo "FAILED: submit $fname ($fpath)\n";
}
}
else
{
if ( $fname && $fpath) echo "FAILED: $fname ($fpath)\n";
}
//echo $snoopy->results; // for debugging, direct stdout to an HTML file and then open it
} # End ForEach Loop
exit;
?>