On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Colonna Francois <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le jeudi 14 mai 2009 à 09:19 -0400, Brad Jorsch a écrit : >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:12:06AM +0200, Colonna Francois wrote: >> > Hello, >> > is it possible to get directly on disk the xml file produced by the api >> > command below >> > >> > api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&gaplimit=1000&format=xml >> > >> > using lynx -dump for example (I don't know how to do it) or an other >> > batch mode procedure ? >> >> Use wget, curl, or any other program that downloads a URL and saves it >> to disk. > > I tried wget > > > http://localhost/~wiki/mediawiki/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&gaplimit=100&format=xml > > it results in : [snip]
The & character has a special meaning on the command-line. Try putting quotation marks around the url, so wget 'http://localhost/~wiki/mediawiki/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&gaplimit=100&format=xml' Sam -- Sam PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
