[Mediawiki-api] Get diffs?

[Brianna Laugher]

2008/8/20 Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw at home.nl>:
> The only thing we can provide from the API are wikidiff2's diffs (i.e.
> HTML diffs) which are pulled from the diff cache whenever possible.
> However, you can get these through index.php as well (forgot the exact
> parameters).

Sorry, what's a wikidiff2 diff and how is it different to the diff
displayed to users?

Isn't (part of) the point of an API interface to avoid the need to
screenscrape? Which is what you're doing if you're getting anything
from index.php.... right?

Brianna

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