[Pywikipedia-l] fullVersionHistory question - pywikibot

9 Feb 2012

Pywikipedians,

What is the best way to get the wikitext for every revision of a page?

I've been trying to understand why pywikipedia.fullVersionHistory does not 
keep going.  It seems to do one or two or maybe three fetches of 
revCount=500 and then it stops --- even if there are many more revisions.

Is there a fix for this?

For example, for Barack_Obama, I get consistently 1393 revisions, and the 
most recent in that list is from 2006 !

Here's how I am calling it:

   h = p.fullVersionHistory(getAll=True, reverseOrder=True, revCount=500)

where 'p' is a Page instance.

Advice?

Thanks!

John

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