Hi,

On 07/31/2016 07:53 AM, Takashi OTA wrote:
> Such links are stored in externallinks.sql.gz, in an expanded form.
> 
> When you want to check increase/decrease of linked domains in chronological
> order through edit history, you have to check pages-meta-history1.xml etc.
> In a such case, traditional links and links by templates are mixed,
> Therefore, the latter ones (links by templates) should be expanded to
> traditional link forms.

If you have the revision ID, you can make an API query like:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&oldid=387276926&prop=externallinks>.

This will expand all templates and give you the same set of
externallinks that would have ended up in the dump.

-- Legoktm

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