fwdekker / mediawiki-purger

Purges all pages on a wiki

MediaWiki Purger

Purge all pages on a MediaWiki wiki using a CLI tool.

Requirements

• Java 11 or newer.
• Tested on MediaWiki 1.33.3.

Usage

1. Download the jar on the releases page.
2. Open a terminal and navigate to where you downloaded the jar.
3. Run the jar with java -jar mediawiki-purger.jar [options]. See below for a list of options.

Options

Usage: purger [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --api TEXT           The URL to the MediaWiki API, such as
                       https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php.
  --page-size INT      Amount of pages to purge at a time.
  --throttle INT...    The maximum amount of API requests per time period in
                       milliseconds, such as `10 1000` for 10 requests per
                       second.
  --start-from TEXT    Starts purging pages in alphabetical order starting
                       from this page title. Does not have to refer to an
                       existing page.
  --username TEXT      The username to log in as, including the @.
  --bot-password TEXT  The bot password to log in with.
  -h, --help           Show this message and exit

Development

gradlew assemble  # Create the jar in the `build/libs` directory
gradlew check     # Run tests and static analysis

Debugging

To run the jar with a specific log level, run java -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel=<LEVEL> -jar mediawiki-purger.jar [options].