On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Andre Engels
<andreengels(a)gmail.com
wrote:
The interwiki links are retrieved from page content. The page content has
been received through a call to Special:Export.
> I.e. would receiving no content (from the bot POV) produce that
behavior?
Yes, the only reasonable explanation seems to be that the bot interprets
what it gets from the server as an empty page.
So you screen-scrape? No surprise it breaks. Why? For example, due to
protocol-relative URLs. Or some other changes to HTML output. Why not just
use API?
Basically, because most of the core functionality comes from before the API
came into existence. At least, that would be my explanation.
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André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com