I'm not familiar with Special:Export (I use the api.php) but looking at page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_Special:Export , it seems there is a parameter "history". I added it to your query and it seems to work, i.e. I get a bunch of "revisions" tags in the xml.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Export&pages=WSQ&offset=1&limit=1000&action=submit&history Take into account that the previous query is for page "WSQ", a page I choose randomly because it has a very short history, 7 edits overall, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WSQ&action=history I tried the same Special:Export on the page "Wikipedia" in the browser and it does not finish on my computer, maybe with a curl POST it will but I doubt it. Hope it helps. P. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Andrea Forte <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, sorry, I spoke too soon. Yes, it formatted properly but it seems > that the "export" parameter only exports the most recent revision and > if I add the revision property to ask for more than one, it defaults > back to the other format. :-\ So I'm still not able to get the whole > edit history of one page in the special:export format. leSigh. > > Andrea > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Andrea Forte <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yep, that did it, thanks! (I never tried including both export and >> exportnowrap, just one or the other and it was defining things like >> revisionids as element attributes instead of children.) >> >> Andrea >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Andrea Forte <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> I'm trying to download the complete revision history for just a few >>>> pages. The options, as I see it, are using the API or special:export. >>>> The API returns XML that is formatted differently than special:export >>>> and I already have a set of parsers that work with special:export data >>>> so I'm inclined to go with that. >>>> >>> You can use api.php?action=query&export&exportnowrap&titles=Foo|Bar|Baz >>> , that should give you the same format. >>> >>> Roan Kattouw (Catrope) >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :: Andrea Forte >> :: Assistant Professor >> :: College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University >> :: http://www.andreaforte.net >> > > > > -- > :: Andrea Forte > :: Assistant Professor > :: College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University > :: http://www.andreaforte.net > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- -- Paolo Massa Email: paolo AT gnuband DOT org Blog: http://gnuband.org _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
