Dose this work?
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--Nathaniel Sturtz
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:38 PM Bryan Davis <bd808@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:48 AM A Person <apersonwiki@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Can multiple diffs be fetched in the same API request? If not, what is
> the
> > best way to obtain diffs (in HTML form) for many revision IDs at once?
> >
> > Suggestions involving the Wikimedia Toolforge replica databases would
> also
> > work, since I'm working on a Toolforge tool.
>
> As far as I know, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Compare is the
> only API to get HTML formatted diffs between revisions. That Action
> API endpoint does not have a "batch" option that would allow a single
> API request to return multiple page diffs.
>
> The Wiki Replicas do not provide revision content data (wikitext), so
> there is no neat hack to be done there to work around the lack of a
> batch diff API. I think your main option is making a diff request for
> each page/revision you are interested in either in series or parallel
> from your application code. I would love for someone else to prove me
> wrong on that though. :)
>
> Bryan
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