RSS feed of articles added to the Wikipedia watchlist

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I would like to have an RSS feed with the articles I personally add to my Watchlist. So each time I star an article, the RSS feed gets updated with the article title, url, description. I could then add it to my RSS reader or any other service using IFTTT.

Seems like a pretty regular thing, but cannot find it anywhere online. Suggestions anyone?

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You can syndicate your Wikipedia watch list using a 'token' as an Aton or RSS feed as described by Wikipedia: Syndication:

Go to Special:Preferences

Click the "Watchlist" tab

Make up a token, or copy and paste the "randomly-generated value" into the "Watchlist token" box

Click "Save"

Your watchlist Atom feed can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&wlowner=USERNAME&wltoken=TOKEN&feedformat=atom, where USERNAME is your username without the User: prefix and TOKEN is the watchlist token you saved in your preferences. If you would prefer an RSS feed rather than an Atom one, use "feedformat=rss" in place of "feedformat=atom".

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Wikipedia RSS – How to Get RSS Feeds for Articles Created

You can get the feed if you check out the New pages watch and filter for your name only.

Toolbox > Special Pages > Recent changes and logs > New pages
Enter your Wikipedia handle in the Username: field
Hit Go

You'll then get results showing all the newly created pages started by that username.

Grab the "Special:New pages" Atom feed that is created for that result output.

The URL for that will look like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=atom&hideliu=&hidepatrolled=&hidebots=&hideredirs=1&limit=50&namespace=0&username=USERNAME

Replace USERNAME in the above with yours.

Google-sheets – Auto-Update via RSS (and keep history)

=ImportFeed(URL; [feedQuery | itemQuery]; [headers]; [numItems]).

This function imports an RSS or ATOM feed, just as you can in Google Reader.

For more information on this go to : Functions for external Data : Functions - Google Docs help

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