On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@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@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