How to get full Wikipedia revision-history list from some article?

Question

How can I get the full Wikipedia revision-history list? (Don\'t want to scrape)

import wapiti
import pdb
import pylab as plt  
client = wapiti.WapitiClient(\         


        

Answer 1

If you use pywikibot you can pull a generator that will run through the full revision history for you. For example, to get a generator that will step through all the revisions (including their content) for the page "pagename" in English Wikipedia, use:

site = pywikibot.Site("en", "wikipedia")
page = pywikibot.Page(site, "pagename")
revs = page.revisions(content=True)

There's a lot more parameters you can apply to the query. You can find the API documentation here

Of note is:

revisions(reverse=False, total=None, content=False, rollback=False, starttime=None, endtime=None)

Generator which loads the version history as Revision instances.

pywikibot appears to be the approach taken by many wikipedia editors to automate editing.