public List <RevisionData> GetRevisions(string title, int revId = -1)
{
// returns the revisions for the given wikipedia page
// title: the name of the wikipedia page what we are looking for
// revId: the first revision id, we interested in
string rvendid = revId > -1 ? "&rvendid=" + revId : "";
//Console.WriteLine(apiLink + "&prop=revisions&titles=" + title + revisionProperties + rvendid + format + encoding);
string url = apiQueryLink + "&titles=" + title + revisionProperties + rvendid + format + encoding;
string result = client.DownloadString(url);
var revisions = new List <RevisionData>();
try
{
var revisionsDict = JSONUtils.DeserializeRevisions(result);
foreach (var entry in revisionsDict)
{
int eRevId = (int)JSONUtils.GetValueFromJSONObject(entry, "revid");
int eParentId = (int)JSONUtils.GetValueFromJSONObject(entry, "parentid");
int eSize = (int)JSONUtils.GetValueFromJSONObject(entry, "size");
string eTimestamp = (string)JSONUtils.GetValueFromJSONObject(entry, "timestamp");
revisions.Add(new RevisionData(eRevId, eParentId, eSize, DateTime.ParseExact(eTimestamp, "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)));
}
return(revisions);
}
catch (WikiAPIException exp)
{
return(revisions);
}
}
public string GetContent(string title, int revId = -1)
{
// returns the content of the given page
// if revId not -1, then search by revId, otherwise search by title
string cond = revId > -1 ? "&revids=" + revId : "&titles=" + title;
string result = client.DownloadString(apiQueryLink + cond + contentProperties + format + encoding);
try
{
var revisions = JSONUtils.DeserializeRevisions(result);
return((string)((Dictionary <string, object>)revisions.GetValue(0))["*"]);
}
catch (WikiAPIException exp)
{
return("Wrong wikipedia page.");
}
}