Hi Brad and Gergo,
Thanks for your responses!
@Brad: Yeah, that was also my impression, but I wasn't sure. Seemed strange
that the example in the official docs would point to a place where the
feature was disabled. Thank you for clearing that up!
@Gergo: I've been looking at action=parse, but as far as I understand it,
it is limited to one revision per API request, which makes it quite slow to
get a bunch of older revisions from a large number of articles.
action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content omits the references from the
output (just gives the string "{{reflist}}" after "References"). "mvrefs"
sounds very promising, though! I will definitely check that out - thank you!
Best,
Bertel
2016-12-20 19:51 GMT+01:00 Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org>:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen <
> geilfe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And is there no way of getting references through the API?
>>
>
> There is no nice way, but you can always get the HTML (or the parse tree,
> depending on whether you want parsed or raw refs) and process it;
> references are not hard to extract. For the wikitext version, there is a
> python tool: https://github.com/mediawiki-utilities/python-mwrefs
>
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