Request actions

Getting data in wptools centers on request "actions". We make API requests to get data, and then we assign values from the data to select data members. Most actions map to a get_{action} method. All request actions are cached except random requests, which are repeatable. The wptools user-agent will look like this:

wptools/<version> (https://github.com/siznax/wptools) <libs>

• page actions
• category actions
• site actions

page actions

Action	Method	Description
*	get()	some mix of all actions below
claims	get_claims()	Wikidata:API action=wbgetentities request for Q entity labels
imageinfo	get_imageinfo()	Mediawiki API:Imageinfo request for image info
parse	get_parse()	MediaWiki:API action=parse request for parsetree/infobox data
query	get_query()	MediaWiki:API action=query request for extracts, image, etc.
querymore	get_more()	MediaWiki:API action=query request for files, categories, views, etc.
random	get_random()	Mediawiki API:Random for random page
rest	get_restbase()	RESTBase /page/ requests for page content
wikidata	get_wikidata()	Wikidata:API action=wbgetentities for page wikidata

page.cache
{
  claims:       {query, response, info},
  imageinfo:    {query, response, info},
  parse:        {query, response, info},
  query:        {query, response, info},
  querymore:    {query, response, info},
  rest:         {query, response, info},
  wikidata:     {query, response, info}
}

category actions

Action	Method	Description
categorymembers	get_members()	Mediawiki API:Categorymembers for category members
random:14	get_random()	Mediawiki API:Random for random category (ns=14)

category.cache
{
  category:     {query, response, info},
}

site actions

Action	Method	Description
siteinfo	get_info()	Mediawiki API:Siteinfo and Extension:PageViewInfo for site info
sitematrix	get_sites()	Wikimedia Commons Extension:SiteMatrix for sitematrix and a randomly selected site
siteviews	get_info()	Mediawiki Extension:PageViewInfo for sitewide unique visitors

site.cache
{
  siteinfo:     {query, response, info},
  sitematrix:   {query, response, info},
  sitevisitors: {query, response, info}
}