Ohh great. I spent countless hours making that self-documentation message, and it is now dreaded? :)

This is a known limitation that I don't see a way around. SQL, to the best of my knowledge, does not allow "for each page in list, get first N rows from a subquery", or something like that. In order words, a sql request would have to be made separately for each page - not good.

--Yuri

On 7/29/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:

I'm trying to use a single API call to generate information on multiple revisions of pages that transclude another page.

The parameters I use are as follows:

action=query prop=revisions generator=embeddedin geinamespace=2 geititle=user:Iron_Chicken/ToDo rvprop=user|ids|comment

The url looks like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&genera...

That's great but it only returns information about the latest revision.

So I look at the documentation for prop=revisions and add rvlimit=5

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&genera...

Oops, now I get the dreaded API documentation message.

Wassup?

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