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Where is the information being scraped from? I looked at the source but I'm hardly a JS/Web expert. Seems to be from here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sp
by typis7 11y ago
Where is the information being scraped from?
I looked at the source but I'm hardly a JS/Web expert.
Seems to be from here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream
but only found a list of weird addresses: https://github.com/hatnote/listen-to-wikipedia/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ws%3A%2F%2Fwikimon.hatnote.com&type=Code https://github.com/hatnote/listen-to-wikipedia/search?utf8=%...
- jivid 11y agoThose addresses are websocket servers that seem to publish wikipedia changes. The app is just subscribing to the changes by opening a websocket connection to the appropriate server. Looking at their other repos and the addresses you linked to, looks like the project for publishing the changes is at https://github.com/hatnote/wikimon https://github.com/hatnote/wikimon, which is in turn getting changes from an IRC feed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data#IRC_Feeds https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data#IRC_Feeds