RemoteWiki

The extension provides {{#remote_version:}} parser function capable to fetch remote MediaWiki version and installed extensions versions and URLs data. Supports authentication via BotPasswords.

Requirements

• MediaWiki 1.35+

Setup

• Clone the repository into ./extensions/RemoteWiki
• Add extensions/RemoteWiki/composer.json to your composer.local.json
• Run composer update --no-dev
• Add wfLoadExtension('RemoteWiki'); to the bottom of LocalSettings.php

Configuration

• $wgRemoteWikiCacheTTL - time in seconds for cache TTL
• $wgRemoteWikiBotPasswords - store BotPasswords for accessing private wikis

Usage

Fetch remote wiki version

{{#remote_version:https://wiki.com/w/api.php}}

Fetch remote wiki extensions versions

{{#remote_version:https://wiki.com/w/api.php|extensions}}

Fetch remote wiki extensions URLs

{{#remote_version:https://wiki.com/w/api.php|extension-urls}}

For private wiki add bot credentials into $wgRemoteWikiBotPasswords setting like below:

$wgRemoteWikiBotPasswords['mywiki.com/w/api.php'] = [
	'username' => 'testbot@user',
	'password' => 'testpassword'
];

Functions output and parsing examples

remote_version function not supplied with 2nd argument will simply output raw mediawiki version number, eg:

{{#remote_version:https://wiki.com/w/api.php}} = 1.35.5

remote_version with 2nd argument set to extensions will return list of extensions and their versions (if any) or git commits (if version information is missing) or question marks if version can't be detected, using : as an separator between extension and version and , as a record separator, eg:

{{#remote_version:https://wiki.com/w/api.php|extensions}} = ParserFunctions:1.0,SemanticWatchlist:2.0,PageForms:5.0

this output can be easily parsed via arraymap and explode parser functions, eg:

Displays table of extensions and their versions

{|class="wikitable"
! Extension
! Version
|-
{{#arraymap:{{#remote_version:https://wiki.com/w/api.php|extensions}}
|,
|@
|
{{!}}-
{{!}} '''{{#explode:@|:|0}}'''
{{!}} <code>{{#explode:@|:|1}}</code>
{{!}}-
| 
}}
|-
|}

remote_version with 2nd argument set to extension-urls will return list of extensions and their URLs (if any) or question marks if the URL is not set, using : as a separator between extension and URL and | as a record separator (rather than , since commas are valid in URLs). A formatted output can be achieved with:

Displays table of extensions and their URLs

{|class="wikitable"
! Extension
! URL
|-
{{#arraymap:{{#remote_version:https://wiki.com/w/api.php|extension-urls}}
|{{!}}
|@
|
{{!}}-
{{!}} '''{{#explode:@|:|0}}'''
{{!}} <code>{{#explode:@|:|1|2}}</code>
{{!}}-
| 
}}
|-
|}