wikiget

Introduction

Wikiget is a console utility to download the Lazarus wiki. Maybe it also works for other MediaWikis sites. You find it in the basic installation of Lazarus in the directory LazarusDir/components/wiki.

Using wikiget

wikiget -h

Shows all parameters and examples.

Command line parameters

--dir=<directory> : directory in which to store the files. Default:

--images=<directory> : directory in which to store the images. Default: images

--baseurl=<URL> : URL of the wiki. Default: http://wiki.freepascal.org/

--page=<pagename> : download this wiki page. Can be given multiple times.

--allmissing : download all wiki pages, if page file not already there.

--recent=<days> : download pages again if changed in the last days on the site. includes --allmissing.

--ignore-recent=<minutes> : do not download again files younger than this on disk. combine with --recent. Default:

--shownotusedpages : show unused files in the output directory.

--deletenotusedpages : delete the files in the output directory that are not used.

--shownotusedimages : show inused files in the images directory.

--deletenotusedimages : delete the files in the images directory that are not used.

--nowrite : do not write files, just print what would be written.

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From the Free Pascal wiki, page "wikiget", as it stood on 2020-03-04 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.