I'm not familiar with Special:Export (I use the api.php) but looking
at page
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_Special:Export
, it seems there is a parameter "history". I added it to your query
and it seems to work, i.e. I get a bunch of "revisions" tags in the
xml.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Export&pages=WSQ&…
Take into account that the previous query is for page "WSQ", a page I
choose randomly because it has a very short history, 7 edits overall,
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WSQ&action=history
I tried the same Special:Export on the page "Wikipedia" in the browser
and it does not finish on my computer, maybe with a curl POST it will
but I doubt it.
Hope it helps.
P.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Andrea Forte <andrea.forte(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, sorry, I spoke too soon. Yes, it formatted
properly but it seems
that the "export" parameter only exports the most recent revision and
if I add the revision property to ask for more than one, it defaults
back to the other format. :-\ So I'm still not able to get the whole
edit history of one page in the special:export format. leSigh.
Andrea
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Andrea Forte <andrea.forte(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yep, that did it, thanks! (I never tried
including both export and
exportnowrap, just one or the other and it was defining things like
revisionids as element attributes instead of children.)
Andrea
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Andrea Forte
<andrea.forte(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm trying to download the complete revision
history for just a few
pages. The options, as I see it, are using the API or special:export.
The API returns XML that is formatted differently than special:export
and I already have a set of parsers that work with special:export data
so I'm inclined to go with that.
You can use
api.php?action=query&export&exportnowrap&titles=Foo|Bar|Baz
, that should give you the same format.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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