Snippets/Autoedit

Autoedit is Lupin's user-space script that enables automatic page editing via commands in URLs (see also: Manual:Parameters to index.php). To use, you need to include autoedit.js in your personal or global JavaScript (if you have working Pop-ups, you must also have included that) by adding the following lines: mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/autoedit.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

Arguments
?title=Article &action=edit &autoedit=s~...~...~g;s~...~...~g &autoclick=wpDiff &autominor=false &autosummary=Summary  – article title  – action  – autoedit script  – begin of replace command  – it will be replaced by next text (may be a regular expression); cannot contain   chars, for enter text to empty page (or new section in existing one) keep it empty    – next text ;)</tt>; cannot contain   chars</li>   – end of replace command</li></ul> Script can contain multiple commands, separated by    – button pressed after autoedit </li>   – is change minor</li>   – summary of edit</li></ol>

Example
To replace all  words with   in article , you can use this command: http://www.yourwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Animals&action=edit&autoedit=s~cat~dog~g&autoclick=wpSave&autominor=false&autosummary=Replace%20cat%20by%20dog

Using in
This function is used in Lupin's Pop-ups script.