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+title: "How to get a RSS Feed of your Wikipedia Watchlist"
+date: 2024-01-07T11:29:01-05:00
+draft: false
+tags: []
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+---
+
+Instead of having to manually log in to Wikipedia to look at your watchlist, you can use your RSS feed!
+
+**Step 1:** Get your token
+
+Go to your [preferences](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist-token). Log in if not already.
+
+Then click on the *Watchlist* tab. Scroll down to *Tokens*. Click the *Manage Tokens* button.
+
+Hold on to the token for the next step.
+
+**Step 2:** Import the RSS feed to your feed reader.
+
+Direct URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&allrev&wlowner=USERNAME&wltoken=TOKEN
+
+Replace `USERNAME` and `TOKEN` with their respective information.
+
+**That's it!** Each new item in the RSS feed will look like the following (feed reader dependent):
+
+```
+Reinforcement learning
+December 31, 2023 at 11:28 PM by OAbot
+
+[[Wikipedia:OABOT|Open access bot]]: arxiv updated in citation with #oabot. (OAbot) 
+```
+
+At a glance, you can see:
+
+Line 1: Title of Wikipedia Page Edited
+
+Line 2: Time and Author of Edit (may be username or IP)
+
+Rest: Description of edit.
+
+From here you can check the diffs to make sure that the edit stands.
+
+
+
+## Resources
+
+https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist
+https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3aSyndication