[Wikitech-l] Re: api error

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 13:16, Tim Moody <tim(a)timmoody.com> wrote: Hi Tim, If you go to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=visualeditor you'll see that this API is labelled as an internal, do-not-call API. The page you're requesting is too big for the timeout, and you get an error. In particular, you're calling an expensive API on a very expensive page. [Snip] resolved. Please don't repeatedly call an API that's telling you your call has caused too much server load, especially an internal one. By the URL you've given, you probably want https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Timeline_of_the_COVID… instead; sadly, that is an experimental API, but it is at least designed to be used by the public. You can read about this API, and a bunch of others, at https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, and the direct API-generated documentation at https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Page%20content/getContent-mobile-html Hope this helps! Yours, -- James D. Forrester (he/him or they/themself) Wikimedia Foundation