Manual:Chris G's botclasses/AllCategoryMembersBot.php
This bot retrieves a list of all members of a category and stores that list in a text file.
<?php
/* AllCategoryMembersBot
* By Leucosticte, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Leucosticte
* GNU Public License 2.0
*
* This bot retrieves a list of all category members for a given category
* and stores it in a text file.
*/
/* Setup my classes. */
include( 'botclasses.php' );
$wiki = new wikipedia;
$wiki->url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/api.php";
/* All the login stuff. */
$user = 'REMOVED';
$pass = 'REMOVED';
$wiki->login( $user, $pass );
$category = "All";
$pageTitlesFile = 'CategoryMembers.txt';
$pageTitles = fopen ( $pageTitlesFile, 'w' );
$cmcontinue = '';
$done = false;
while ( !$done ) {
$query = "?action=query&format=php&list=categorymembers&cmtype=page|cmlimit=500&cmtitle=Category:$category";
if ( $cmcontinue ) {
$query .= "&cmcontinue=$cmcontinue";
}
$ret = $wiki->query ( $query );
if ( !isset ( $ret['query-continue'] ) ) {
$done = true;
} else {
$cmcontinue = $ret['query-continue']['categorymembers']['cmcontinue'];
}
foreach ( $ret['query']['categorymembers'] as $thisCategory ) {
fwrite ( $pageTitles, $thisCategory['title'] . "\n" );
}
}
fclose ( $pageTitles );