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argosci
argosci

Reputation: 11

Is there a reliable way to determine if a webpage is generated using MediaWiki?

I wish to fetch raw wikitext from a selection of webpages (which may be generated using MediaWiki or not).

I try to programmically look through the HTML of a webpage, determine if it uses MediaWiki and fetch raw wikitext, else skip. So far it seems MediaWiki pages tend to have:

Is this a good approach to look for one of these and try fetching raw wikitext using query param action=raw or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 42

Answers (1)

佩奇君
佩奇君

Reputation: 134

Right, try fetch it:

http://Host of test needed/path (if have)/index. php?title=Special:Version

If the response includes "MediaWiki" & "PHP" & "Lua", this site is prowered by MediaWiki.

Upvotes: 0

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