Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Miscellaneous/Wikipedia API: Output also in text or in TSV format/Proposal
- Problem: The output of the API is not in a simple format like plain text, but in JSON or HTML, where it is e.g. appropriate or requested (user request or according to API usage statistics).
- Proposed solution: For example, enable this output, but via an API:
# List of revisions for user Dušan Kreheľ? curl -s 'https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Du%C5%A1an_Krehe%C4%BE&offset=&limit=500&action=history'|tr '"' "\n"|grep "oldid="|grep -v ";diff"|tr "=" " "|awk '{print $3}'|sort 21442049 21474908 21618555 21696280 22094013 22159891 22232863 22444821 22462733 23450518 23462853
- Who would benefit: Less skilled API users. The one who wants "simple and easy to use".
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 17:47, 6 February 2023 (UTC)