Hi Gabriel, The REST API looks promising - thank you!
Having played around with it a bit, I seem to only be able to get one revision per request. Is that correct, or am I doing something wrong? My project requires every revision and its references from a large number of articles, so that would make a lot of requests. The regular API allows for multiple revisions per request (only with action=query, though). Thanks! Bertel 2016-12-21 17:01 GMT+01:00 Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org>: > Bertel, another option is to use the REST API: > > > - HTML for a specific revision: https://en. > wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/getFormatRevision > <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 > <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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
