go-mwclient is a Go package for interacting with the MediaWiki JSON API.

go-mwclient aims to be a thin wrapper around the MediaWiki API that takes care of the most tedious parts of interacting with the API (such as authentication and query continuation), but it does not aim to abstract away all the functionality of the API.

go-mwclient v1 uses version 2 of the MediaWiki JSON API.

The canonical import path for this package is

import cgt.name/pkg/go-mwclient // imports "mwclient"

Documentation:

• GoDoc: http://godoc.org/cgt.name/pkg/go-mwclient
• MediaWiki API docs: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

As of v1.0.0, go-mwclient uses semantic versioning. The master branch contains the most recent v1.x.x release.

go get -u cgt.name/pkg/go-mwclient

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "cgt.name/pkg/go-mwclient"
)

func main() {
    // Initialize a *Client with New(), specifying the wiki's API URL
    // and your HTTP User-Agent. Try to use a meaningful User-Agent.
    w, err := mwclient.New("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php", "myWikibot")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Log in.
    err = w.Login("USERNAME", "PASSWORD")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Specify parameters to send.
    parameters := map[string]string{
        "action":   "query",
        "list":     "recentchanges",
        "rclimit":  "2",
        "rctype":   "edit",
        "continue": "",
    }

    // Make the request.
    resp, err := w.Get(parameters)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Print the *jason.Object
    fmt.Println(resp)
}

Other than the standard library, go-mwclient depends on the following third party, open source packages:

• https://github.com/antonholmquist/jason (MIT licensed)
• https://github.com/mrjones/oauth (MIT licensed)

To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without any warranty.

You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along with this software. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.

The params package is based on the net/url package from the Go standard library, which is released under a BSD-style license. See params/LICENSE.

Contributions to the params package as part of this project are released to the public domain via CC0, as noted above and specified in the COPYING file.