From faf0e31b4e33067b80f292186a39c8da91dbab59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Federico Leva <federicoleva@tiscali.it>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:19:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Don't set apfrom in initial allpages request, use suggested
 continuation

Helps with recent MediaWiki versions like 1.31 where variants of "!" can
give a bad title error and the continuation wants apcontinue anyway.
---
 dumpgenerator.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dumpgenerator.py b/dumpgenerator.py
index 3ba9222..b197fb6 100755
--- a/dumpgenerator.py
+++ b/dumpgenerator.py
@@ -257,14 +257,14 @@ def getPageTitlesAPI(config={}, session=None):
 
         c = 0
         print '    Retrieving titles in the namespace %d' % (namespace)
-        apfrom = '!'
+        apfrom = ''
         while apfrom:
             sys.stderr.write('.')  # progress
             params = {
                 'action': 'query',
                 'list': 'allpages',
                 'apnamespace': namespace,
-                'apfrom': apfrom.encode('utf-8'),
+                'apfrom': apfrom,
                 'format': 'json',
                 'aplimit': 500}