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rsk82
rsk82

Reputation: 29377

Is it possible to retrieve information about articles in multiple languages without multiple requests?

I mean this methot where user can ask data for max 50 articles without abusing api system by multiple requests, so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=size&titles=Berlin|Paris|Rome

Gives correct size for these articles. But how to retrieve such info about sizes from different languages ? The only method I know of is to replace the language code at the beginning of the domain, like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=size&titles=Berlin

https://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=size&titles=Berlin

https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=size&titles=Berlin

etc..

So natural question is how to make these requests into one, but all I try do not work.

for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=size&titles=en:Berlin|de:Berlin|sv:Berlin - shows only data for English page, for others there is only a strange entry for example: { "title": "sv:berlin", "iw": "sv" } that contains no useful data

removing the country code from domain also breaks the query: https://wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=size&titles=en:Berlin|de:Berlin|sv:Berlin - "invalidreason": "The requested page title contains invalid characters: \"%7c\"."

So is the only way to get such data to try to gently 'flood' their api servers and hope that they wouldn't block me ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 127

Answers (1)

Nemo
Nemo

Reputation: 2544

There is no reason to bundle those requests in one, especially as they are very cheap API requests. Just make all the requests you need.

Upvotes: 1

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