Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/zanderhackbot

{{Newbot|zanderhackbot}}

Operator: {{User|Zanderhack}}

Automatic or Manually assisted:

Automatic

Programming language(s):

Ruby

Source code available:

See below

Function overview:

Performs a query to determine whether a wikipedia page exists or not. I need this so I can a hyperlinks to my website that go to real pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

N/A

Edit period(s):

One time run

Estimated number of pages affected:

no editing. it's just a check to see if a page with a given name exists

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):

N

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

N

Function details:

checks to see if a page exists :

puts "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=#{link.content.gsub(/ /,'_')}&format=xml"

wiki = Nokogiri::XML(open("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=#{link.content.gsub(/ /,'_')}&format=xml", 'UserAgent'=>'Ruby Page Finder by Martin Szyllo, Morango London, martin@morango.co.uk Phone +44 020 7099-8959').read)

w = wiki.xpath('//api/query/pages/page')

if !w.attribute("missing")

puts "

=Discussion=