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Bug 11865 - Add support for machine-readable diffs
Add support for machine-readable diffs
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
API (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2007-11-03 21:45 UTC by Kimon Berlin (gribeco)
Modified: 2009-12-30 05:20 UTC (History)
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Description Kimon Berlin (gribeco) 2007-11-03 21:45:44 UTC 
The mediawiki API does not support machine-readable diffs yet. This would allow a bot to parse changes for vandalism, spam, or other particular content.

The current human-readable diff has lots of html cruft that has to be stripped to get to the real data, as well as unnecessary data for  a bot (headers, menus, the entire text following the diff...)
Comment 1 Platonides 2007-11-03 21:56:19 UTC 
Stripping all html you get a machine diff.
Adding &action=render you omit headers and menus
Adding &diffonly=1 you get the diff without the rendered page.

So with action=render&diffonly=1 you only get the diff table.
Comment 2 Kimon Berlin (gribeco) 2007-11-03 22:27:02 UTC 
Good enough. Thanks!
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