- Anand

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Platonides <platonides@gmail.com> wrote:

Anand Ramanathan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a requirement to inspect a given wikipage's url to determine if
> its size exceeds 500kb, and to get the page, truncate it to 500kb and
> pass it to some api.
>
> I couldnt find a way to determine the size of a wikipage through the api.

You can get page size via the api using rvprop=size, or by grabbing the
revision content and looking at its length.

> I also tried to call HEAD on the wikipage. I do get results sometimes,
> but sometimes I get an http 403 forbidden. The same thing happens with
> http GET on the page. The pages I tried most often for testing were
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
> and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States.

Identify yourself. Give your program a proper user-agent, like "Anand
500kb program". If you use the generic user agent of your framework or
try to make you pass as a browser you will be blocked.

> Can you suggest an effective way to achieve the requirement above?
>
> Thanks
> Anand

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