This can be done fairly easily using Pywiki framework. I Suggest using the compat branch, and can walk you thru that process.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Brenton Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I suspect this question will not have as elegant an answer as I'd like but > I was wondering if anyone in this mailing lists knows an easy (like easy > enough for someone with as little programming understand as myself) > automated way of downloading all the files in a category or an article on a > Wikimedia project/Wikia site. I am running windows 7 (64 bit) SP1 if it is > relevant, although I do have access to a Linux command line (namely cygwin > 64 bits) if needed. > > I have seen |http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_download_all_image_ > files_in_a_Wikimedia_Commons_page_or_directory| but it didn't help me as > at the |WIKI_LINKS| step I received an error that there was no such page on > Wikimedia Commons. > > If you would like a specific example to work with (i.e., a specific > category to write a code to download from) try the Wikimedia Commons > category Histopathology (|https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category: > Histopathology|). Dw I know this download will take a while due to the > number and size of the files involved. > > Thanks for your time, > Brenton > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
