{"id":232,"date":"2008-03-03T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/webpath-and-wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T23:38:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T06:38:44","slug":"webpath-and-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/03\/webpath-and-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"WebPath and Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The WebPath<\/a> bug reports continue to roll in. For one, queries against *.wikipedia.* don’t seem to work. You get something<\/em> back, but it has no resemblance to the page you were looking for. The problem comes from the W3C tidy service<\/a> that I use, specifically that the (understandably overworked and understaffed) admins at the Wikimedia Foundation seem to have blocked it. It seems like more than a simple IP or user-agent-based block. I’ve emailed them about it but haven’t heard back yet.<\/p>\n

So, this highlights the limitation of having a single-source converter in the Platonic Web<\/a> module of WebPath. So I turn to my readers: do you know of any other tidy servers? Or converters of a non-tidy origin? For any of these to work, they need to return clean XML corresponding to the original page (as opposed to, say, returning something with big headers\/footers or ampersand-encoded). This seems like an outstanding need for the open source community.<\/p>\n

Please comment below with ideas. Thanks! -m<\/p>\n

UPDATE: heard back from the Wikipedia admins, and although professional and helpful-as-can-be-expected, they won’t be changing anything on their end. Still looking for more open source options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The WebPath bug reports continue to roll in. For one, queries against *.wikipedia.* don’t seem to work. You get something back, but it has no resemblance to the page you were looking for. The problem comes from the W3C tidy service that I use, specifically that the (understandably overworked and understaffed) admins at the Wikimedia…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,6,22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyance","category-intentional-web","category-software","category-xpath"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t