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[Migrated] Allow creating lists based on external web pages
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Not infrequently, I use a toolserver tool to create a list of all pages where certain edits would probably be needed using AWB (category names by patern using http://toolserver.org/~jarry/grep/?lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&ns=0 this tool, category scans using http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=en&wikifam=.wikipedia.org this tool), where creating the list inside AWB is either impossible (such as my first example) or difficult (the second example - I still would need to filter out all non-mainspace, for example, but that would be simple AWB filtering). I think that we should be able to make a list from all incoming links from an external web page, given by URL. That would make these tasks much easier. @Od Mishehu 10:38, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

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Reguyla renamed this task from [Migrate] Allow creating lists based on external web pages to [Migrated] Allow creating lists based on external web pages.May 17 2015, 1:28 AM
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I migrated this change over but it refers to the Toolserver so it it may be overcome by events unless it also applies to the WMFLabs servers.

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We now have an "HTML scraper" list making option which allows links from an external web page to be fetched, covers this request.