2009/10/29 Laurent <laurent1979(a)gmail.com>om>:
I'm trying to retrieve all the templates from
a page as XML strings so
that I can retrieve their parameters and values. For that I'm using
the "expandtemplates" action with "generatexml" set to true. It
works
well for very small articles however not for large ones (above approx.
2000 characters). In this cases, the API fails because the query
string is too big (Error ERR_TOO_BIG).
Is there any way around this issue? Or maybe I'm not using the right
approach? Any help would be appreciated.
Are you grabbing a page's content in one request (prop=revisions),
then feeding it to action=expandtemplates in a second request? In that
case, you can take a shortcut by passing the
&rvexpandtemplates&rvgeneratexml parameters to prop=revisions.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
I'm doing the same thing for a couple of thousand articles a day the
way Roan suggests and it works fine for me. One thing I notice though
is it gets slow and it can only do whole pages. Would it be possible
to allow it to work just with sections? I'm interested in Infoboxes
which are always in section 0.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
_______________________________________________
Mediawiki-api mailing list
Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api