Bryan Derksen wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 6/14/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 6/14/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Meanwhile there's now discussion on talk:Daniel Brandt about deleting the article's history once the merge is complete
As [[Special:Export]] no longer works for exporting the full history of an article, is there any way to do this without downloading the entire history dump?
Use api.php
For instance this will download the last five revisions of "John Lennon" in xml format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xmlfm&action=query&titles=J...
That maxes out at 500 revisions. Is there a way to change the offset? [[Daniel Brandt]] has over 2000 revisions.
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.