On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Short answer: The API does not seem to directly provide such info, but > you could use action=compare, then search for class=\"diff-lineno\" > and divide by 2 (it appears once on each side of the diff). > > Do note that the question you ask is not very well defined. The method > above will give you the number of chunks the diff engine displays, > which can be different from what you consider as a modification. For > instance > https://ro.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=compare&fromrev=9648318&torev=10670757 > shows 1 chunk, but there is a modified line and an added line (the > category), which you might consider as 2 different modifications. You > need to clearly set the expectations before searching for a solution.
fwiw, Pywikibot has an APISite method "compare" to fetch the MediaWiki diff https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/api_ref/pywikibot.html#pywikibot.site.APISite.compare and another function "html_comparator" to convert the MediaWiki diff into something a bit more usable for simple uses https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/api_ref/pywikibot.html#pywikibot.diff.html_comparator We have one unit test that puts these two functions together in a hopefully understandable fashion https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/blob/master/tests/diff_tests.py#L87 -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
