On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)home.nl> wrote:
Chad schreef:
Action=parse can take multiple titles,
No
it can't.
and you can get
other page metadata in addition to just HTML output.
Not to mention you can bundle it into one request with
action=parse|query.
That's also not possible.
-Chad
On Feb 23, 2009 3:14 PM, "Michael Dale" <mdale(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
it would be really nice if we could get html output from the api query
... this would avoid issuing doing dozens of action parse requests
separately.
It apperas to be mentioned pretty regularly... does anyone know if a bug
to that end has been filed.. I will plop one in there if none exists
(did not find any with in my quick search)
Yes, it's been filed before and WONTFIXed because parsing dozens or
hundreds of pages in one request is kind of scary performance-wise.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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Could've sworn it was possible. Apologies.
-Cha