Get Wikipedia Via RSS Feed

This article explains how to get Wikipedia via RSS.

Steps

  1. Visit Wikipedia here.
  2. Determine what pages you are interested in the following. There are several ways that you can use the RSS feed, depending on which changes you want to see.
    • For changes to any Wikipedia article, go to its history page and use the toolbox link labeled "RSS" to subscribe to this feed.
    • For all changes, go to Special:RecentChanges and use the toolbox link labeled "RSS" to subscribe to this feed.
    • For new pages, go to Special:NewPages and use the toolbox link labeled "RSS" to subscribe to this feed.
    • To follow all edits by a particular user, go to that user's contributions page and use the toolbox link labeled "RSS".

For changes to pages on your watchlist

You can also monitor changes to all pages that you've added to your watchlist. Since the Watchlist features are only available to registered users, you will need to make an account if you don't already have one.

  1. Go to your user preferences page and visit the Watchlist tab. Note the random string in the "token" field. This is required to access your watchlist and keeps your watchlist private.
  2. Your watchlist RSS feed can be found at en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&wlowner=USERNAME&wltoken=TOKEN, where USERNAME is your username following the User: prefix and TOKEN is the watchlist token you saved in your preferences.

Tips

  • You may also be interested in Get-an-RSS-Feed-from-a-Website.

Warnings

  • The feeds are cached to prevent runtime queries of Wikipedia.
  • The feed are published under an open content license and requires links back to the source.

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