[Mediawiki-api] parse output

Chad innocentkiller at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 15:35:52 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw at home.nl> wrote:

> Chad schreef:
> > Action=parse can take multiple titles,
> No it can't.
>
> > and you can get
> > other page metadata in addition to just HTML output.
> > Not to mention you can bundle it into one request with
> > action=parse|query.
> >
> That's also not possible.
>
> > -Chad
> >
> > On Feb 23, 2009 3:14 PM, "Michael Dale" <mdale at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > it would be really nice if we could get html output from the api query
> > ... this would avoid issuing doing dozens of action parse requests
> > separately.
> >
> > It apperas to be mentioned pretty regularly... does anyone know if a bug
> > to that end has been filed.. I will plop one in there if none exists
> > (did not find any with in my quick search)
> >
> Yes, it's been filed before and WONTFIXed because parsing dozens or
> hundreds of pages in one request is kind of scary performance-wise.
>
> Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
>
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Could've sworn it was possible. Apologies.

-Cha
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