Thread:Peteparker/@comment-28032193-20160404132055/@comment-957747-20160408223413

The API is limited, for non-sysop accounts, to 5k per request. I'm actually surprised you were able to get 13k.

I would suggest using api.php instead and trying this query:

http://marvel.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Characters&cmlimit=5000

You can append  to get the next 5k.

If you wish the info to be more readily parsable (I just made this word up), you can append  to get an object-based list rather than an XML-formatted list.