https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19572
Summary: API list=embeddedin times out when namespace specified
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Normal
Component: API
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
I discovered this accidentally while rewriting my archiving bot to use the API.
It gets its list of pages by examining transclusions of a particular template.
Thus, we start with
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&einamespace=5&list=embeddedin&eititle=User:MiszaBot/config&eilimit=100&action=query
- this is for the 'Wikipedia talk:' namespace.
This should work fine; we get "eicontinue": "2|MiszaBot\/config|2072126", so
let's continue on to the next batch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=jsonfm&einamespace=5&list=embeddedin&eititle=User:MiszaBot/config&eilimit=100&action=query&eicontinue=2|MiszaBot/config|2072126
Which may or may not work for you when you try it; if it does, try following
the next eicontinue. At some point (especially with "cold index cache", I
presume; which is why it's not reliably reproducible), it may choke and (after
a minute or so of waiting) you get a Wikimedia error page (in HTML, not JSON,
so the parser freaks out) from a squid explaining that an ERR_READ_TIMEOUT
occured.
I wouldn't be too hasty attributing this to the squids, because I've seen it
happen even while going 10 results per request (which really shouldn't take
that long).
Oddly, there are no problems when I just omit einamespace and filter in my
program based on the "ns" parameter of the yielded pages.
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