The allpages API module allows you to do just that. Its limit (when you set aplimit=max) is 500, so to query all 4.5M articles, you would need about 9000 requests. But a dump is a better choice, because there are many different dumps, including all-titles-in-ns0 which, as its name suggests, contains exactly what you want … Read more
You can add permissions for new groups to your LocalSettings.php file and they will automatically appear in the Special:UserRights page. For example, I wanted to disallow editing by regular users but create a “Trusted” group that was allowed to edit. The following code creates a “Trusted” group that is equal to the “user” group, except … Read more
Try Pandoc, a universal document converter: $ pandoc –help pandoc [OPTIONS] [FILES] Input formats: docbook, haddock, html, json, latex, markdown, markdown_github, markdown_mmd, markdown_phpextra, markdown_strict, mediawiki, native, opml, rst, textile Output formats: asciidoc, beamer, context, docbook, docx, dzslides, epub, epub3, fb2, html, html5, json, latex, man, markdown, markdown_github, markdown_mmd, markdown_phpextra, markdown_strict, mediawiki, native, odt, opendocument, opml, … Read more
Use action=parse to get the html: /api.php?action=parse&page=test One way to get the text from the html would be to load it into a browser and walk the nodes, looking only for the text nodes, using JavaScript.