On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:50:59 +0100, Gerhard Wendebourg <gw(a)web-hh.de> wrote: There are a number of options, depending on your exact needs. 1) use the Special:Export page to generate either the current version or history of one or many pages, wrapped in some XML with things like title, timestamp, etc 2) add "?action=raw" (or "&action=raw", if it's already a "?..." type URL) to the URL of a page to return the raw wikitext of that page (with a "text/x-wikimarkup" content type to avoid IE sniffing for HTML) 3) use an appropriate MySQL utility to dump or examine the 'cur' and/or 'old' tables - the latest revision of each article is stored in 'cur', and all others in 'old' (this will change in 1.5, but you don't need to worry about that). Note that the namespace is stored numerically in a seperate field, so an entry with cur_namespace=0 and cur_title='Foo' is the page [[Foo]], while that with cur_namespace=1 and cur_title='Foo' is [[Talk:Foo]] (see "includes/Defines.php" for the full list). The rest of the structure is probably self-explanatory give or take a bit of experimentation. +) For more complex interactions, see the "Python Wikipedia Robot Framework", at http://pywikipediabot.sf.net ++) And, seeing as you said "or other content", Special:Recentchanges, Special:Newpages, and possibly others, have RSS and Atom feeds (see links in the "toolbox") HTH -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:50:59 +0100, Gerhard Wendebourg <gw(a)web-hh.de> wrote: There are a number of options, depending on your exact needs. 1) use the Special:Export page to generate either the current version or history of one or many pages, wrapped in some XML with things like title, timestamp, etc 2) add "?action=raw" (or "&action=raw", if it's already a "?..." type URL) to the URL of a page to return the raw wikitext of that page (with a "text/x-wikimarkup" content type to avoid IE sniffing for HTML) 3) use an appropriate MySQL utility to dump or examine the 'cur' and/or 'old' tables - the latest revision of each article is stored in 'cur', and all others in 'old' (this will change in 1.5, but you don't need to worry about that). Note that the namespace is stored numerically in a seperate field, so an entry with cur_namespace=0 and cur_title='Foo' is the page [[Foo]], while that with cur_namespace=1 and cur_title='Foo' is [[Talk:Foo]] (see "includes/Defines.php" for the full list). The rest of the structure is probably self-explanatory give or take a bit of experimentation. +) For more complex interactions, see the "Python Wikipedia Robot Framework", at http://pywikipediabot.sf.net ++) And, seeing as you said "or other content", Special:Recentchanges, Special:Newpages, and possibly others, have RSS and Atom feeds (see links in the "toolbox") HTH -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]