On 11/06/12 03:57, Eamonn wrote: > I would appreciate if anyone could give me any advice in the best way to > use the API to do the following: > > For a particular Wikipedia page: > 1. Determine if the page has changed in the last 24 hours. > 2. Extract from the page only the sections that have changed in the last > 24 hours. > > I know the index.php call can return a history (e.g. > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray_Bradbury&action=history ) > which has links that allow you to get particular diffs. However this is > intended for human consumption, and would require some screen-scraping > to extract out the information I need. > > Is there a way to use the API to get similar information as the > index.php?*&action=history command, but instead of getting HTML to get > an XML or JSON result that is easier to digest? > > Thanks, > __ > Eamonn
Take a look at list=recentchanges Although http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss may already contain everything you want. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
