A (semantic) MediaWiki client for Matlab.

The difficult part was to make the HTTP-requests with session cookies & redirects...

Example:

>> url = 'http://some.wiki.org/wiki/api.php';
>> mw = MWSite(url).login('Ankostis@test','qu8hqc8f07se3ra05ufcn89keecpmgtk');  % bot password 
>> mw.askargs('Category:Cars', 'Vehicle OEM', 'limit=3')
>> disp(jsonencode(results))
    AR004: [1×1 struct]
    AR005: [1×1 struct]
    AR006: [1×1 struct]
  
>> disp(mw.History)
  LogRecord with properties:

             URI: [1×1 matlab.net.URI]
         Request: [1×1 matlab.net.http.RequestMessage]
     RequestTime: [14-Feb-2019 18:32:22    14-Feb-2019 18:32:23]
        Response: [1×1 matlab.net.http.ResponseMessage]
    ResponseTime: [14-Feb-2019 18:32:23    14-Feb-2019 18:32:23]
     Disposition: Done
       Exception: [0×0 MException]

Status:

As of Feb 2019, it is in a very early stage, just a week of work:

• REQUIRES MATLAB >= R2016b(9.1.x) for string-vectors & proper HTTP support. (e.g. for cookies: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.net.http.cookieinfo-class.html).
• Features:
  • Allow bots to login.
  • run #ask semantic-queries.
  • Rudimentary error-handling.
  • Respects some of WP's UserAgent policies (Valid UserAgent, Easy to Debug).
  • Http machinery implemented as a pipeline of "handlers" (callbacks).
• Not tested for Matlab-9.4+ (R2018a or higher), where HTTP support for application/x-www-form-urlencoded were not fully there yet.
• Lightly tested only against MediaWiki-1.31.
• Read Contents for an overview of the library code.
• Read also the Changelog of the project.

Installation

• Download the archive of the latest release,
• extract all the files of the archive somewhere in your MATLAB's search-path,
• generate a bot-password with adequate permissions for your wiki, and
• try the sample code in the README.md and consult Contents.m.

Notes:

• Http-session handling based on MATLAB's "official" sample code.
• Design influenced by:
  • apache axis
  • python client library