[WikiEN-l] [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again

[Tony Sidaway]

On 6/14/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
> >
> > 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=John_Lennon&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvlimit=5
>
> That maxes out at 500 revisions. Is there a way to change the offset?
> [[Daniel Brandt]] has over 2000 revisions.

Try this url for help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

It's a bit fiddly but it's probably possible to specify a "since" date
or a revision id or something.

Someone said that it doesn't accept GET. Well obviously it does,
though obviously it would make more sense to script this than to to do
it by hand.