On 6/14/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
My mistake, it actually maxes out at 50 for non-bot accounts. That's not even as good as [[Special:Export]]. I also see now that there are parameters for setting spans of revision IDs, but in chunks of 50 that's over 40 queries to hand-craft.
Worse than that for [[Special:Export]], as it doesn't accept GET requests. I wound up creating a form locally to POST requests with the additional parameter for the spans and ran the thirty-some (IIRC) requests by hand.
Turns out I could have instead used my bot account and cut the queries down to 4, although at this point I can't remember the password on it - and I don't have email set up for it to get a new one.
Wish I could get that live feed...