On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Max Semenik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maxsem.wiki@gmail.com">maxsem.wiki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Andre Engels <<a href="mailto:andreengels@gmail.com">andreengels@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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> The interwiki links are retrieved from page content. The page content has<br>
> been received through a call to Special:Export.<br>
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> > I.e. would receiving no content (from the bot POV) produce that behavior?<br>
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> Yes, the only reasonable explanation seems to be that the bot interprets<br>
> what it gets from the server as an empty page.<br>
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</div>So you screen-scrape? No surprise it breaks. Why? For example, due to<br>
protocol-relative URLs. Or some other changes to HTML output. Why not just<br>
use API?<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Basically, because most of the core functionality comes from before the API came into existence. At least, that would be my explanation.<br><br>-- <br>André Engels, <a href="mailto:andreengels@gmail.com">andreengels@gmail.com</a><br>
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