Bertel, another option is to use the REST API:
- HTML for a specific revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/getFormatRevision - Within this HTML, references are marked up like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/1.3.0/Extensions/Cite. Any HTML or XML DOM parser can be used to extract this information. Hope this helps, Gabriel On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:20 AM, Bertel Teilfeldt Hansen < geilfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > -- Gabriel Wicke Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
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