Talk:AllPages

List generation

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import urllib.request
import json

base_query = 'http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=500&apfilterredir=nonredirects&format=json&apfrom='
query_title = ''
titles = {}

while True:
    request = urllib.request.urlopen(base_query + query_title)
    response = request.read()
    results = json.loads(response.decode())
    for page in results['query']['allpages']:
        title = page['title']
        titles[title] = urllib.parse.quote(title.replace(' ', '_'))
    if 'query-continue' in results:
        query_title = results['query-continue']['allpages']['apcontinue']
    else:
        break

output_file = open('output.mediawiki', 'w')

for title, url in sorted(titles.items()):
    if title != 'AllPages':
        output_file.write('[[' + url + '|' + title + ']]\n<br>\n')

--imahero 04:19, 6 September 2016 (CEST)

Nice technical page, but I must ask is there any use for it? At least for me this seems quite useless, causing hinder rather than help. –Kapteeni Ruoska (talk) 06:11, 7 September 2016 (CEST)

I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I was missing. When I'm browsing through the list it's easier to click these links than copy pasting the auto-generated titles from the api query.

--imahero 03:14, 8 September 2016 (CEST)

Sure, just wondering, as the wiki already has Special:AllPages, but perhaps there is a use for that. –Kapteeni Ruoska (talk) 07:27, 8 September 2016 (CEST)

Special:AllPages felt too clumsy for me to navigate. All I really wanted was a single list of all nonredirect links :)

--imahero 08:31, 8 September 2016 (CEST)

I may want to go back to using the external link syntax if breaking the orphaned pages is a big deal. For now I've just added the orphaned pages here and I'll just update the list every time I generate the AllPages list.
--imahero 15:19, 8 September 2016 (CEST)

Orphaned pages

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