From: Peter Marsh <evil_grunger@...>
Date: 2007-05-22T02:27:03+09:00
Subject: Wikipedia Bot

I'm planning on writing a simple Wikipedia Bot, but I'm having a little
difficulty. The bot needs to be able to log in to Wikipedia, but I'm not
sure if this code is working. It returns the Main Page, which does
happen after you log in, but I'm not entirely sure if this means if I've
actually logged in or not. Here's what I've used (ripped from:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html):


require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

res =
Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Main_Page'),{'wpName'=>'username_not_this_one',
'wpPassword'=>'password_not_this_one'})
    puts res.body

My user & password were correct.

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