Fetching page text

Fetching page text

Returns an the wikitext of the specified page. If $revid is defined, it will return the text of that revision; if $section_number is defined, it will return the text of that section.

A blank page will return wikitext of "" (which evaluates to false in Perl, but is defined); a nonexistent page will return undef (which also evaluates to false in Perl, but is obviously undefined). You can distinguish between blank and nonexistent by using Perl's defined builtin:

my $wikitext = $bot->get_text('Page title');
print "Wikitext: $wikitext\n" if defined $wikitext;