Is there a Mediawiki extension or built-in wikitext function that checks if an account with a given name exists?
I'm looking for something like:
{{#ifuserexists: username|wikitext if account exists with that username|wikitext otherwise}}
There doesn't appear to be anything easy to find in that regard (search "mediawiki parser function if user exist" and "mediawiki check if user exists" on Google or Bing for example of how search engines utterly fail to find a relevant extension)
RightFunctions can probably do that.
Found something that works.
Contribution Scores provides a parser function {{#cscore: username}} that produces an activity score if the user in question exists and "Invalid username" if the user doesn't exist.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Contribution_Scores
Just a warning: #cscore produces a malformed/corrupted string object that is thoroughly incompatible with standard string processing parser functions (including #ifeq, #sub, #replace), so you can't make a template that implements conditionals based on this. All efforts to parse the output produced unexpected/wrong results or UNIQ-QINUs.
If you merely need to view the created/uncreated status of user accounts via a manually configured dashboard, #cscore is sufficient. However, it doesn't work for any programmatic or automated mechanism in wikitext except if you use a nonstandard or deep wikitext manipulation extension where the standard StringFunctions, ParserFunctions, and RegexFunctions fall flat.
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I have 2 firestore collections - crews/{crew}/clients and crews/{crew}/pros. If a new client registers and a new document is created, I want to search collection pros for pros working the matching sector and living within 5 km (of the new client), and send notification to the pros filtered. In order to implement that in cloud functions,
I installed geofirestore using npm, saved crews/{crew}/pros like this;
https://i.stack.imgur.com/YwAFO.png
but after executing this function, I have error message on cloud functions console like this;
Error: Registration token(s) provided to sendToDevice() must be a non-empty string or a non-empty array
Is there anything wrong with my firestore data structure? Thank you.
I found that this data structure was correct, because I could get notification to work with this data structure. I tried another structure like this;
https://i.stack.imgur.com/vtB5X.jpg
However, it gave me another error.
I'd like to have a list of just the current titles for all questions in one of the smaller (less than 10,000 questions) stackexchange site. I tried the interactive utility here: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions and it both reports the result as a json at the bottom, and produces the requesting url at the top. For example:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?order=desc&sort=activity&tagged=apples&site=cooking
returns this JSON in my browser:
{"items":[{"tags":["apples","crumble"],"owner":{ ...
...
...],"has_more":true,"quota_max":300,"quota_remaining":252}
What is quota? It was 10,000 on one search on one site, but suddenly it's only 300 here.
I won't be doing this very often, what I'd like is the quickest way to edit that (or similar of course) url so I can get a list of all of the titles on a small site. I don't understand how to use paging, and I don't need any of the other fields. I don't care if I get them, but I'm thinking if I exclude them I can have more at once.
If I need to script it, python (2.7) is my preferred (only) language.
quota_max is the number of requests your application is allowed per day. 300 is the default for an unregistered application. This used to be mentioned directly on the page describing throttles, but seems to have been removed. Here is historical information describing the default.
To increase this to 10,000, you need to register an application and then authenticate by passing an access token in your script.
To get all titles on a site, you can use a Python library to help:
StackAPI. The answer below will use this library. DISCLAIMER: I wrote this library
Py-StackExchange
SEAPI
StackPy
Assuming you have registered your application and authenticated we can proceed.
First, install StackAPI (documentation):
pip install stackapi
This code will then grab the 10,000 most recent questions (max_pages * page_size) for the site hardwarerecs. Each page costs you one API hit, so the more items per page, the few API calls.
from stackapi import StackAPI
SITE = StackAPI('hardwarerecs')
SITE.page_size = 100
SITE.max_pages = 100
# Filter to only get question title and link
filter = '!BHMIbze0EQ*ved8LyoO6rNjkuLgHPR'
questions = SITE.fetch('questions', filter=filter)
In the questions variable is a dictionary that looks very similar to the API output, except that the library did all the paging for you. Your data is in questions['data'] and, in this case, contains a list of dictionaries that look like this:
[
...
{u'link': u'http://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/29/sound-board-to-replace-a-gl2200-in-a-house-of-worship-foh-setting',
u'title': u'Sound board to replace a GL2200 in a house-of-worship FOH setting?'},
{ u'link': u'http://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/31/passive-gps-tracker-logger',
u'title': u'Passive GPS tracker/logger'}
...
]
This result set is limited to only the title and the link because of the filter we applied. You can find the appropriate filter by adjusting what fields you want in the web UI and copying the filter field.
The hardwarerecs parameter that is passed when creating the SITE parameter is the first part of the site's domain URL. Alternatively, you can find it by looking at the api_site_parameter for your site when looking at the /sites end point.
I am learning GAS. The app script on the Quickstart: Managing Responses for Google Forms uses the depecrated Class&method:ScriptProperties.getProperty(key) ie.ScriptProperties.getProperty('calId'). I have reported this as an issue to Google. Is there a better way to code this example and achieve similar results?
// Store the ID for the Calendar, which is needed to retrieve events by ID.
ScriptProperties.setProperty('calId', cal.getId());
You'll want to use Properties.setProperty(key, value) instead of ScriptProperties.setProperty(key, value) The reason is because The "Properties Service" has now replaced Google's ScriptProperties class. Here's my source: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/properties
The other answer is almost right..., it just uses a shortcut from the documentation without defining the shortcut itself.
The syntax is as follows
PropertiesService.getScriptProperties().setProperty(key, value)
And all the similar methods as described in the documentation. (getProperty,setProperties , etc...)
The usage is the same, you can use find/replace in your script to simply update every occurrences .
I'm wondering where I can find a list of what every variable is in the Search Engine settings.
When you input a Search Engine into the settings, there are a number of variables attached, for example:
%s - The search query you're running
inputEncoding - The input encoding (i.e. UTF-8)
RLZ - ???
baseURL - ???
assistedQueryStats - ???
Google Chrome takes advantage of OpenSearch, "a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results", as their specification for search query handling. The specification can be found here. But this only applies to any terms that are not prefixed with "google:". Because "google:" prefixed variables are subject to change, it is best to, at this time, reference directly to the source code of the URL management, which can be found here. The source code is also subject to change.
"google:" prefixed search variables can be found here.
All other search variables can be found here.
I'm developing an interface between an old web based application and another one. That old web-based application works fine but there no exists any API to communicate with.
There is any programmatic way to say a web-form something like: enter this value on this field, this one ins other and submit form?
UPDATE: I looking for something like this:
WebAutomation w = new WebAutomation("http://apphost/report");
w.forms[0].input[3].value = 123;
w.forms[0].input[4].value = "hello";
Response r = w.forms[0].submit();
...
Despite the tag on your question, the answer is going to be highly language specific. There are also going to be wide range of solutions depending on how complex of a solution you are willing to implement and how flexible a result you are looking for.
On the one hand you can accomplish a lot in a very short period of time with something like Python's mechanize, but on the other hand, you can really get into the guts and have a lot of control by automating a browser using a COM object such as SHDocVw (Windows-only, of course).
Or, as LoveMeSomeCode suggested, you can really hit your head against the concrete and start forging POST requests, but good-luck figuring out what the server expects if is doing any front-end processing of the form data.
EDIT:
One more option, if you are looking for something that you can come up to speed on quickly, is to use a AutoIt's IE module, which basically provides a programmatic interface over an instance of Internet Explorer (its all COM in underneath, of course). Keep in mind that this will likely be the least supportable option you could choose. I have personally used this to produce proof-of-concept automation suites that were then migrated to a more robust C# implementation where I handled the COM calls myself.
In .NET: http://watin.sourceforge.net/
In ruby: http://wtr.rubyforge.org/
Cross platform: http://seleniumhq.org/
You can, but you have to mock up a POST request. The fields (textboxes, radio buttons, etc.) are transmitted as key-value pairs back to the resource. You need to make a request for this resource(whichever one is used in the SUBMIT action for the FORM tag) and put all your field-value pairs in a POST payload no the request.
Here's a good program to see what values are being transmitted: http://www.httpwatch.com
Or, you can use Firebug, a free Firefox extension.
The Perl module WWW::Mechanize does exactly that. Your
example would look something like this:
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new;
$agent->get("http://apphost/report");
my $response = $agent->submit_form(
with_fields => {
field_1_name => 123,
field_2_name => "hello",
},
);
There is also a Python port, and I guess similar libraries exist for many other languages.