Written a MediaWiki Client Library

This is a MediaWiki client library based on .NET PCL, targeting at .NET Framework 4.5, ASP.NET Core 1.0, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Android. The verified supported MediaWiki API version can be as low as MediaWiki 1.19 (Wikia). FYI, now Wikipedia is using MediaWiki 1.28.

Repository: https://github.com/CXuesong/WikiClientLibrary

Other MediaWiki client libraries: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code

Advertise for it: Frankly I haven’t take time to summarize, but it supports

• common API for page query/creation/edit/deletion
• generators.
• file upload
• query result pagination (encapsulated as IAsyncEnumerable )

Some demo (Okay in fact I just copied from README.md 😕 )

static async Task HelloWikiWorld()
{
    // Create a MediaWiki API client.
    var wikiClient = new WikiClient
    {
        // UA of Client Application. The UA of WikiClientLibrary will
        // be append to the end of this when sending requests.
        ClientUserAgent = "ConsoleTestApplication1/1.0",
    };
    // Create a MediaWiki Site instance with the URL of API endpoint.
    var site = await Site.CreateAsync(wikiClient, "https://test2.wikipedia.org/w/api.php");
    // Access site information via Site.SiteInfo
    Console.WriteLine("API version: {0}", site.SiteInfo.Generator);
    // Access user information via Site.UserInfo
    Console.WriteLine("Hello, {0}!", site.UserInfo.Name);
    Console.WriteLine("You're in the following groups: {0}.", string.Join(",", site.UserInfo.Groups));
    // Site login
    if (Confirm($"Do you want to login into {site.SiteInfo.SiteName}?"))
    {
        await site.LoginAsync(Input("Username"), Input("Password"));
        Console.WriteLine("You have successfully logged in as {0}.", site.UserInfo.Name);
    }
    // Find out more members in Site class, such as
    //  site.Namespaces
    //  site.InterwikiMap

    // Page Operations
    // Fetch information and content
    var page = new Page(site, site.SiteInfo.MainPage);
    Console.WriteLine("Retriving {0}...", page);
    await page.RefreshAsync(PageQueryOptions.FetchContent);

    Console.WriteLine("Last touched at {0}.", page.LastTouched);
    Console.WriteLine("Last revision {0} by {1} at {2}.", page.LastRevisionId,
        page.LastRevision.UserName, page.LastRevision.TimeStamp);
    Console.WriteLine("Content length: {0} bytes ----------", page.ContentLength);
    Console.WriteLine(page.Content);
    // Purge the page
    if (await page.PurgeAsync())
        Console.WriteLine("  The page has been purged successfully.");
    // Edit the page
    page = new Page(site, "Project:Sandbox");
    await page.RefreshAsync(PageQueryOptions.FetchContent);
    if (!page.Exists) Console.WriteLine("Warning: The page {0} doesn't exist.", page);
    page.Content += "\n\n'''Hello''' ''world''!";
    await page.UpdateContentAsync("Test edit from WikiClientLibrary.");
    Console.WriteLine("{0} has been saved. RevisionId = {1}.", page, page.LastRevisionId);
    // Find out more operations in Page class, such as
    //  page.MoveAsync()
    //  page.DeleteAsync()
    // Logout
    await site.LogoutAsync();
    Console.WriteLine("You have successfully logged out.");
}