I'm experimenting with a wiki at work, and I have a bunch of illustrations and various images that I wanted to automatically have available to me as I was editing. There are enough of them that adding by hand was onerous, and adding via FTP & manual manipulation of the database was equally unappealing.
Here is a WWW::Mechanize script that will upload pngs to a wikipedia. Alter lines 5 through 9 to suit your installation of wikimedia
#! perl.exe
$|++;
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $wikilogin = "http://example.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userl
+ogin";
my $wikiuploader = "http://example.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Up
+load";
my $user = 'username';
my $pass = 'password';
my $description = 'Media uploaded via automation';
#
# begin real work here
#
my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$agent->get ($wikilogin);
my $form = $agent->form_name('userlogin');
$agent->field ('wpName',$user);
$agent->field ('wpPassword',$pass);
$agent->field ('wpRemember',1);
$agent->click ();
open (ERRFH, ">errored.txt");
while (<*.png>){
$agent->get($wikiuploader);
my $form = $agent->forms(1);
if ($form) { #we've found the form, fill it out
# fill out the body
$agent->field('wpUploadFile', $_);
$agent->field('wpUploadDescription', $description);
$agent->field('wpUploadAffirm',1);# and submit
$agent->click('wpUpload');
print "saved $_\n";
} else {
#something's gone wrong
#simple log for now
#TODO: fill out w/ better logic.
print ERRFH "$_\n";
}
}
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