MediaWiki API help

This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.

Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page

Main module

Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Status: The MediaWiki API is a mature and stable interface that is actively supported and improved. While we try to avoid it, we may occasionally need to make breaking changes; subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list for notice of updates.

Erroneous requests: When erroneous requests are sent to the API, an HTTP header will be sent with the key "MediaWiki-API-Error" and then both the value of the header and the error code sent back will be set to the same value. For more information see API: Errors and warnings.

Testing: For ease of testing API requests, see Special:ApiSandbox.

Parameters:

action

Which action to perform.

block: Block a user.
changeauthenticationdata: Change authentication data for the current user.
changecontentmodel: Change the content model of a page
checktoken: Check the validity of a token from action=query&meta=tokens.
clearhasmsg: Clears the hasmsg flag for the current user.
clientlogin: Log in to the wiki using the interactive flow.
compare: Get the difference between two pages.
createaccount: Create a new user account.
delete: Delete a page.
edit: Create and edit pages.
emailuser: Email a user.
expandtemplates: Expands all templates within wikitext.
feedcontributions: Returns a user's contributions feed.
feedrecentchanges: Returns a recent changes feed.
feedwatchlist: Returns a watchlist feed.
filerevert: Revert a file to an old version.
help: Display help for the specified modules.
imagerotate: Rotate one or more images.
import: Import a page from another wiki, or from an XML file.
linkaccount: Link an account from a third-party provider to the current user.
login: Log in and get authentication cookies.
logout: Log out and clear session data.
managetags: Perform management tasks relating to change tags.
mergehistory: Merge page histories.
move: Move a page.
opensearch: Search the wiki using the OpenSearch protocol.
options: Change preferences of the current user.
paraminfo: Obtain information about API modules.
parse: Parses content and returns parser output.
patrol: Patrol a page or revision.
protect: Change the protection level of a page.
purge: Purge the cache for the given titles.
query: Fetch data from and about MediaWiki.
removeauthenticationdata: Remove authentication data for the current user.
resetpassword: Send a password reset email to a user.
revisiondelete: Delete and undelete revisions.
rollback: Undo the last edit to the page.
rsd: Export an RSD (Really Simple Discovery) schema.
setnotificationtimestamp: Update the notification timestamp for watched pages.
setpagelanguage: Change the language of a page.
tag: Add or remove change tags from individual revisions or log entries.
unblock: Unblock a user.
undelete: Restore revisions of a deleted page.
unlinkaccount: Remove a linked third-party account from the current user.
upload: Upload a file, or get the status of pending uploads.
userrights: Change a user's group membership.
validatepassword: Validate a password against the wiki's password policies.
watch: Add or remove pages from the current user's watchlist.
webapp-manifest: Returns a webapp manifest.
mobileview: Deprecated. Returns data needed for mobile views.
tokens: Deprecated. Get tokens for data-modifying actions.
cspreport: Internal. Used by browsers to report violations of the Content Security Policy. This module should never be used, except when used automatically by a CSP compliant web browser.
stashedit: Internal. Prepare an edit in shared cache.
visualeditor: Internal. Returns HTML5 for a page from the Parsoid service.
visualeditoredit: Internal. Save an HTML5 page to MediaWiki (converted to wikitext via the Parsoid service).

One of the following values: block, changeauthenticationdata, changecontentmodel, checktoken, clearhasmsg, clientlogin, compare, createaccount, delete, edit, emailuser, expandtemplates, feedcontributions, feedrecentchanges, feedwatchlist, filerevert, help, imagerotate, import, linkaccount, login, logout, managetags, mergehistory, move, opensearch, options, paraminfo, parse, patrol, protect, purge, query, removeauthenticationdata, resetpassword, revisiondelete, rollback, rsd, setnotificationtimestamp, setpagelanguage, tag, unblock, undelete, unlinkaccount, upload, userrights, validatepassword, watch, webapp-manifest, mobileview, tokens, cspreport, stashedit, visualeditor, visualeditoredit

Default: help

format

The format of the output.

json: Output data in JSON format.
jsonfm: Output data in JSON format (pretty-print in HTML).
none: Output nothing.
php: Output data in serialized PHP format.
phpfm: Output data in serialized PHP format (pretty-print in HTML).
rawfm: Output data, including debugging elements, in JSON format (pretty-print in HTML).
xml: Output data in XML format.
xmlfm: Output data in XML format (pretty-print in HTML).

One of the following values: json, jsonfm, none, php, phpfm, rawfm, xml, xmlfm

Default: jsonfm

maxlag

Maximum lag can be used when MediaWiki is installed on a database replicated cluster. To save actions causing any more site replication lag, this parameter can make the client wait until the replication lag is less than the specified value. In case of excessive lag, error code maxlag is returned with a message like Waiting for $host: $lag seconds lagged.
See Manual: Maxlag parameter for more information.

Type: integer

smaxage

Set the s-maxage HTTP cache control header to this many seconds. Errors are never cached.

Type: integer

Default: 0

maxage

Set the max-age HTTP cache control header to this many seconds. Errors are never cached.

Type: integer

Default: 0

assert

Verify that the user is logged in if set to user, not logged in if set to anon, or has the bot user right if bot.

One of the following values: anon, bot, user

assertuser

Verify the current user is the named user.

Type: user, by user name

requestid

Any value given here will be included in the response. May be used to distinguish requests.

servedby

Include the hostname that served the request in the results.

Type: boolean (details)

curtimestamp

Include the current timestamp in the result.

Type: boolean (details)

responselanginfo

Include the languages used for uselang and errorlang in the result.

Type: boolean (details)

origin

When accessing the API using a cross-domain AJAX request (CORS), set this to the originating domain. This must be included in any pre-flight request, and therefore must be part of the request URI (not the POST body).

For authenticated requests, this must match one of the origins in the Origin header exactly, so it has to be set to something like https://en.wikipedia.org or https://meta.wikimedia.org. If this parameter does not match the Origin header, a 403 response will be returned. If this parameter matches the Origin header and the origin is whitelisted, the Access-Control-Allow-Origin and Access-Control-Allow-Credentials headers will be set.

For non-authenticated requests, specify the value *. This will cause the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to be set, but Access-Control-Allow-Credentials will be false and all user-specific data will be restricted.

uselang

Language to use for message translations. action=query&meta=siteinfo with siprop=languages returns a list of language codes, or specify user to use the current user's language preference, or specify content to use this wiki's content language.

Default: user

errorformat

Format to use for warning and error text output.

plaintext: Wikitext with HTML tags removed and entities replaced.
wikitext: Unparsed wikitext.
html: HTML.
raw: Message key and parameters.
none: No text output, only the error codes.
bc: Format used prior to MediaWiki 1.29. errorlang and errorsuselocal are ignored.

One of the following values: bc, html, none, plaintext, raw, wikitext

Default: bc

errorlang

Language to use for warnings and errors. action=query&meta=siteinfo with siprop=languages returns a list of language codes, or specify content to use this wiki's content language, or specify uselang to use the same value as the uselang parameter.

Default: uselang

errorsuselocal

If given, error texts will use locally-customized messages from the MediaWiki namespace.

Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Help for the main module.: api.php?action=help [open in sandbox]
All help in one page.: api.php?action=help&recursivesubmodules=1 [open in sandbox]

Permissions:

writeapi: Use of the write API; Granted to: all, user and bot
apihighlimits: Use higher limits in API queries (slow queries: 500; fast queries: 5000). The limits for slow queries also apply to multivalue parameters.; Granted to: bot and sysop

action=block

(main | block)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Block a user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Block

Parameters:

user: User to block.; Type: user, by any of user name, IP, IP range and user ID (e.g. "#12345")
userid: Deprecated.; Specify user=#ID instead.; Type: integer
expiry: Expiry time. May be relative (e.g. 5 months or 2 weeks) or absolute (e.g. 2014-09-18T12:34:56Z). If set to infinite, indefinite, or never, the block will never expire.; Default: never
reason: Reason for block.; Default: (empty)
anononly: Block anonymous users only (i.e. disable anonymous edits for this IP address).; Type: boolean (details)
nocreate: Prevent account creation.; Type: boolean (details)
autoblock: Automatically block the last used IP address, and any subsequent IP addresses they try to login from.; Type: boolean (details)
noemail: Prevent user from sending email through the wiki. (Requires the blockemail right).; Type: boolean (details)
hidename: Hide the username from the block log. (Requires the hideuser right).; Type: boolean (details)
allowusertalk: Allow the user to edit their own talk page (depends on $wgBlockAllowsUTEdit).; Type: boolean (details)
reblock: If the user is already blocked, overwrite the existing block.; Type: boolean (details)
watchuser: Watch the user's or IP address's user and talk pages.; Type: boolean (details)
tags: Change tags to apply to the entry in the block log.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
partial: Block user from specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site.; Type: boolean (details)
pagerestrictions: List of titles to block the user from editing. Only applies when partial is set to true.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 10.
namespacerestrictions: List of namespace IDs to block the user from editing. Only applies when partial is set to true.; Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; To specify all values, use *.
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Block IP address 192.0.2.5 for three days with a reason.: api.php?action=block&user=192.0.2.5&expiry=3%20days&reason=First%20strike&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Block user Vandal indefinitely with a reason, and prevent new account creation and email sending.: api.php?action=block&user=Vandal&expiry=never&reason=Vandalism&nocreate=&autoblock=&noemail=&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=changeauthenticationdata (changeauth)

(main | changeauthenticationdata)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Change authentication data for the current user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Manage_authentication_data

Parameters:

changeauthrequest: Use this authentication request, by the id returned from action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=change.; This parameter is required.
changeauthtoken: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.
*: This module accepts additional parameters depending on the available authentication requests. Use action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=change (or a previous response from this module, if applicable) to determine the requests available and the fields that they use.

Example:

Attempt to change the current user's password to ExamplePassword.: api.php?action=changeauthenticationdata&changeauthrequest=MediaWiki%5CAuth%5CPasswordAuthenticationRequest&password=ExamplePassword&retype=ExamplePassword&changeauthtoken=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=changecontentmodel

(main | changecontentmodel)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Change the content model of a page

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:ChangeContentModel

Parameters:

title: Title of the page to change the contentmodel of. Cannot be used together with pageid.
pageid: Page ID of the page to change the contentmodel of. Cannot be used together with title.; Type: integer
summary: Edit summary and log entry reason
tags: Change tags to apply to the log entry and edit.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
model: Content model of the new content.; This parameter is required.; One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, wikitext
bot: Mark the content model change with a bot flag.; Type: boolean (details)
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Example:

Change the main page to have the text content model: api.php?action=changecontentmodel&title=Main Page&model=text&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=checktoken

(main | checktoken)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Check the validity of a token from action=query&meta=tokens.

Parameters:

type: Type of token being tested.; This parameter is required.; One of the following values: createaccount, csrf, login, patrol, rollback, userrights, watch
token: Token to test.; This parameter is required.
maxtokenage: Maximum allowed age of the token, in seconds.; Type: integer

Example:

Test the validity of a csrf token.: api.php?action=checktoken&type=csrf&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=clearhasmsg

(main | clearhasmsg)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Clears the hasmsg flag for the current user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:ClearHasMsg

Example:

Clear the hasmsg flag for the current user.: api.php?action=clearhasmsg [open in sandbox]

action=clientlogin (login)

(main | clientlogin)

This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

The general procedure to use this module is:

Fetch the fields available from action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=login, and a login token from action=query&meta=tokens.
Present the fields to the user, and obtain their submission.
Post to this module, supplying loginreturnurl and any relevant fields.
Check the status in the response.
- If you received PASS or FAIL, you're done. The operation either succeeded or it didn't.
- If you received UI, present the new fields to the user and obtain their submission. Then post to this module with logincontinue and the relevant fields set, and repeat step 4.
- If you received REDIRECT, direct the user to the redirecttarget and wait for the return to loginreturnurl. Then post to this module with logincontinue and any fields passed to the return URL, and repeat step 4.
- If you received RESTART, that means the authentication worked but we don't have a linked user account. You might treat this as UI or as FAIL.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Login

Parameters:

loginrequests

Only use these authentication requests, by the id returned from action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=login or from a previous response from this module.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

loginmessageformat

Format to use for returning messages.

One of the following values: html, none, raw, wikitext

Default: wikitext

loginmergerequestfields

Merge field information for all authentication requests into one array.

Type: boolean (details)

loginpreservestate

Preserve state from a previous failed login attempt, if possible.

Type: boolean (details)

loginreturnurl

Return URL for third-party authentication flows, must be absolute. Either this or logincontinue is required.

Upon receiving a REDIRECT response, you will typically open a browser or web view to the specified redirecttarget URL for a third-party authentication flow. When that completes, the third party will send the browser or web view to this URL. You should extract any query or POST parameters from the URL and pass them as a logincontinue request to this API module.

logincontinue

This request is a continuation after an earlier UI or REDIRECT response. Either this or loginreturnurl is required.

Type: boolean (details)

logintoken

A "login" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

This parameter is required.

*

This module accepts additional parameters depending on the available authentication requests. Use action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=login (or a previous response from this module, if applicable) to determine the requests available and the fields that they use.

Examples:

Start the process of logging in to the wiki as user Example with password ExamplePassword.: api.php?action=clientlogin&username=Example&password=ExamplePassword&loginreturnurl=http://example.org/&logintoken=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Continue logging in after a UI response for two-factor auth, supplying an OATHToken of 987654.: api.php?action=clientlogin&logincontinue=1&OATHToken=987654&logintoken=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=compare

(main | compare)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get the difference between two pages.

A revision number, a page title, a page ID, text, or a relative reference for both "from" and "to" must be passed.

Parameters:

fromtitle

First title to compare.

fromid

First page ID to compare.

Type: integer

fromrev

First revision to compare.

Type: integer

fromslots

Override content of the revision specified by fromtitle, fromid or fromrev.

This parameter specifies the slots that are to be modified. Use fromtext-{slot}, fromcontentmodel-{slot}, and fromcontentformat-{slot} to specify content for each slot.

Values (separate with | or alternative): main

fromtext-{slot}

Text of the specified slot. If omitted, the slot is removed from the revision.

This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of fromslots.

fromsection-{slot}

When fromtext-{slot} is the content of a single section, this is the section number. It will be merged into the revision specified by fromtitle, fromid or fromrev as if for a section edit.

This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of fromslots.

fromcontentformat-{slot}

Content serialization format of fromtext-{slot}.

This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of fromslots.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

fromcontentmodel-{slot}

Content model of fromtext-{slot}. If not supplied, it will be guessed based on the other parameters.

This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of fromslots.

One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext

frompst

Do a pre-save transform on fromtext-{slot}.

Type: boolean (details)

fromtext

Deprecated.

Specify fromslots=main and use fromtext-main instead.

fromcontentformat

Deprecated.

Specify fromslots=main and use fromcontentformat-main instead.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

fromcontentmodel

Deprecated.

Specify fromslots=main and use fromcontentmodel-main instead.

One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext

fromsection

Deprecated.

Only use the specified section of the specified 'from' content.

totitle

Second title to compare.

toid

Second page ID to compare.

Type: integer

torev

Second revision to compare.

Type: integer

torelative

Use a revision relative to the revision determined from fromtitle, fromid or fromrev. All of the other 'to' options will be ignored.

One of the following values: cur, next, prev

toslots

Override content of the revision specified by totitle, toid or torev.

This parameter specifies the slots that are to be modified. Use totext-{slot}, tocontentmodel-{slot}, and tocontentformat-{slot} to specify content for each slot.

Values (separate with | or alternative): main

totext-{slot}

Text of the specified slot. If omitted, the slot is removed from the revision.

This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of toslots.

tosection-{slot}

When totext-{slot} is the content of a single section, this is the section number. It will be merged into the revision specified by totitle, toid or torev as if for a section edit.

This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of toslots.

tocontentformat-{slot}

Content serialization format of totext-{slot}.

This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of toslots.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

tocontentmodel-{slot}

Content model of totext-{slot}. If not supplied, it will be guessed based on the other parameters.

This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of toslots.

One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext

topst

Do a pre-save transform on totext.

Type: boolean (details)

totext

Deprecated.

Specify toslots=main and use totext-main instead.

tocontentformat

Deprecated.

Specify toslots=main and use tocontentformat-main instead.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

tocontentmodel

Deprecated.

Specify toslots=main and use tocontentmodel-main instead.

One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext

tosection

Deprecated.

Only use the specified section of the specified 'to' content.

prop

Which pieces of information to get.

diff: The diff HTML.
diffsize: The size of the diff HTML, in bytes.
rel: The revision IDs of the revision previous to 'from' and after 'to', if any.
ids: The page and revision IDs of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
title: The page titles of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
user: The user name and ID of the 'from' and 'to' revisions. If the user has been revision deleted, a fromuserhidden or touserhidden property will be returned.
comment: The comment on the 'from' and 'to' revisions. If the comment has been revision deleted, a fromcommenthidden or tocommenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: The parsed comment on the 'from' and 'to' revisions. If the comment has been revision deleted, a fromcommenthidden or tocommenthidden property will be returned.
size: The size of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
timestamp: (no description)

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, diff, diffsize, ids, parsedcomment, rel, size, timestamp, title, user

Default: diff|ids|title

slots

Return individual diffs for these slots, rather than one combined diff for all slots.

Values (separate with | or alternative): main

To specify all values, use *.

Example:

Create a diff between revision 1 and 2.: api.php?action=compare&fromrev=1&torev=2 [open in sandbox]

action=createaccount (create)

(main | createaccount)

This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Create a new user account.

The general procedure to use this module is:

Fetch the fields available from action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=create, and a createaccount token from action=query&meta=tokens.
Present the fields to the user, and obtain their submission.
Post to this module, supplying createreturnurl and any relevant fields.
Check the status in the response.
- If you received PASS or FAIL, you're done. The operation either succeeded or it didn't.
- If you received UI, present the new fields to the user and obtain their submission. Then post to this module with createcontinue and the relevant fields set, and repeat step 4.
- If you received REDIRECT, direct the user to the redirecttarget and wait for the return to createreturnurl. Then post to this module with createcontinue and any fields passed to the return URL, and repeat step 4.
- If you received RESTART, that means the authentication worked but we don't have a linked user account. You might treat this as UI or as FAIL.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Account_creation

Parameters:

createrequests

Only use these authentication requests, by the id returned from action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=create or from a previous response from this module.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

createmessageformat

Format to use for returning messages.

One of the following values: html, none, raw, wikitext

Default: wikitext

createmergerequestfields

Merge field information for all authentication requests into one array.

Type: boolean (details)

createpreservestate

Preserve state from a previous failed login attempt, if possible.

If action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo returned true for hasprimarypreservedstate, requests marked as primary-required should be omitted. If it returned a non-empty value for preservedusername, that username must be used for the username parameter.

Type: boolean (details)

createreturnurl

Return URL for third-party authentication flows, must be absolute. Either this or createcontinue is required.

createcontinue

This request is a continuation after an earlier UI or REDIRECT response. Either this or createreturnurl is required.

Type: boolean (details)

createtoken

A "createaccount" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

This parameter is required.

*

This module accepts additional parameters depending on the available authentication requests. Use action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=create (or a previous response from this module, if applicable) to determine the requests available and the fields that they use.

Example:

Start the process of creating the user Example with the password ExamplePassword.: api.php?action=createaccount&username=Example&password=ExamplePassword&retype=ExamplePassword&createreturnurl=http://example.org/&createtoken=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=cspreport

(main | cspreport)

This module is internal or unstable. Its operation may change without notice.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Used by browsers to report violations of the Content Security Policy. This module should never be used, except when used automatically by a CSP compliant web browser.

Parameters:

reportonly: Mark as being a report from a monitoring policy, not an enforced policy; Type: boolean (details)
source: What generated the CSP header that triggered this report; Default: internal

action=delete

(main | delete)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Delete a page.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Delete

Parameters:

title: Title of the page to delete. Cannot be used together with pageid.
pageid: Page ID of the page to delete. Cannot be used together with title.; Type: integer
reason: Reason for the deletion. If not set, an automatically generated reason will be used.
tags: Change tags to apply to the entry in the deletion log.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
watch: Deprecated.; Add the page to the current user's watchlist.; Type: boolean (details)
watchlist: Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences (ignored for bot users) or do not change watch.; One of the following values: nochange, preferences, unwatch, watch; Default: preferences
unwatch: Deprecated.; Remove the page from the current user's watchlist.; Type: boolean (details)
oldimage: The name of the old image to delete as provided by action=query&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=archivename.
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Delete the Main Page.: api.php?action=delete&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Delete the Main Page with the reason Preparing for move.: api.php?action=delete&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&reason=Preparing%20for%20move [open in sandbox]

action=edit

(main | edit)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Create and edit pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Edit

Parameters:

title

Title of the page to edit. Cannot be used together with pageid.

pageid

Page ID of the page to edit. Cannot be used together with title.

Type: integer

section

Section number. 0 for the top section, new for a new section.

sectiontitle

The title for a new section.

text

Page content.

summary

Edit summary. Also section title when section=new and sectiontitle is not set.

tags

Change tags to apply to the revision.

Values (separate with | or alternative):

minor

Mark this edit as a minor edit.

Type: boolean (details)

notminor

Do not mark this edit as a minor edit even if the "Mark all edits minor by default" user preference is set.

Type: boolean (details)

bot

Mark this edit as a bot edit.

Type: boolean (details)

baserevid

ID of the base revision, used to detect edit conflicts. May be obtained through action=query&prop=revisions. Self-conflicts cause the edit to fail unless basetimestamp is set.

Type: integer

basetimestamp

Timestamp of the base revision, used to detect edit conflicts. May be obtained through action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=timestamp. Self-conflicts are ignored.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

starttimestamp

Timestamp when the editing process began, used to detect edit conflicts. An appropriate value may be obtained using curtimestamp when beginning the edit process (e.g. when loading the page content to edit).

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

recreate

Override any errors about the page having been deleted in the meantime.

Type: boolean (details)

createonly

Don't edit the page if it exists already.

Type: boolean (details)

nocreate

Throw an error if the page doesn't exist.

Type: boolean (details)

watch

Deprecated.

Add the page to the current user's watchlist.

Type: boolean (details)

unwatch

Deprecated.

Remove the page from the current user's watchlist.

Type: boolean (details)

watchlist

Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences (ignored for bot users) or do not change watch.

One of the following values: nochange, preferences, unwatch, watch

Default: preferences

md5

The MD5 hash of the text parameter, or the prependtext and appendtext parameters concatenated. If set, the edit won't be done unless the hash is correct.

prependtext

Add this text to the beginning of the page. Overrides text.

appendtext

Add this text to the end of the page. Overrides text.

Use section=new to append a new section, rather than this parameter.

undo

Undo this revision. Overrides text, prependtext and appendtext.

Type: integer

The value must be no less than 0.

undoafter

Undo all revisions from undo to this one. If not set, just undo one revision.

Type: integer

The value must be no less than 0.

redirect

Automatically resolve redirects.

Type: boolean (details)

contentformat

Content serialization format used for the input text.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

contentmodel

Content model of the new content.

One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext

token

A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

The token should always be sent as the last parameter, or at least after the text parameter.

This parameter is required.

captchaword

Answer to the CAPTCHA

captchaid

CAPTCHA ID from previous request

Examples:

Edit a page.: api.php?action=edit&title=Test&summary=test%20summary&text=article%20content&baserevid=1234567&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Prepend __NOTOC__ to a page.: api.php?action=edit&title=Test&summary=NOTOC&minor=&prependtext=__NOTOC__%0A&basetimestamp=2007-08-24T12:34:54Z&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Undo revisions 13579 through 13585 with autosummary.: api.php?action=edit&title=Test&undo=13585&undoafter=13579&basetimestamp=2007-08-24T12:34:54Z&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=emailuser

(main | emailuser)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Email a user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Email

Parameters:

target: User to send the email to.; This parameter is required.
subject: Subject header.
text: Email body.; This parameter is required.
ccme: Send a copy of this mail to me.; Type: boolean (details)
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Example:

Send an email to the user WikiSysop with the text Content.: api.php?action=emailuser&target=WikiSysop&text=Content&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=expandtemplates

(main | expandtemplates)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Expands all templates within wikitext.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Parsing_wikitext#expandtemplates

Parameters:

title

Title of the page.

text

Wikitext to convert.

This parameter is required.

revid

Revision ID, for {{REVISIONID}} and similar variables.

Type: integer

prop

Which pieces of information to get.

Note that if no values are selected, the result will contain the wikitext, but the output will be in a deprecated format.

wikitext: The expanded wikitext.
categories: Any categories present in the input that are not represented in the wikitext output.
properties: Page properties defined by expanded magic words in the wikitext.
volatile: Whether the output is volatile and should not be reused elsewhere within the page.
ttl: The maximum time after which caches of the result should be invalidated.
modules: Any ResourceLoader modules that parser functions have requested be added to the output. Either jsconfigvars or encodedjsconfigvars must be requested jointly with modules.
jsconfigvars: Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page.
encodedjsconfigvars: Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page as a JSON string.
parsetree: The XML parse tree of the input.

Values (separate with | or alternative): categories, encodedjsconfigvars, jsconfigvars, modules, parsetree, properties, ttl, volatile, wikitext

includecomments

Whether to include HTML comments in the output.

Type: boolean (details)

generatexml

Deprecated.

Generate XML parse tree (replaced by prop=parsetree).

Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Expand the wikitext {{Project:Sandbox}}.: api.php?action=expandtemplates&text={{Project:Sandbox}} [open in sandbox]

action=feedcontributions

(main | feedcontributions)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns a user's contributions feed.

Parameters:

feedformat: The format of the feed.; One of the following values: atom, rss; Default: rss
user: What users to get the contributions for.; This parameter is required.; Type: user, by any of user name, IP, IP range, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")
namespace: Which namespace to filter the contributions by.; One of the following values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
year: From year (and earlier).; Type: integer
month: From month (and earlier).; Type: integer
tagfilter: Filter contributions that have these tags.; Values (separate with | or alternative): advanced mobile edit, mobile edit, mobile web edit, mw-blank, mw-changed-redirect-target, mw-contentmodelchange, mw-manual-revert, mw-new-redirect, mw-removed-redirect, mw-replace, mw-reverted, mw-rollback, mw-undo, visualeditor, visualeditor-needcheck, visualeditor-switched, visualeditor-wikitext; Default: (empty)
deletedonly: Show only deleted contributions.; Type: boolean (details)
toponly: Only show edits that are the latest revisions.; Type: boolean (details)
newonly: Only show edits that are page creations.; Type: boolean (details)
hideminor: Hide minor edits.; Type: boolean (details)
showsizediff: Show the size difference between revisions.; Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Return contributions for user Example.: api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Example [open in sandbox]

action=feedrecentchanges

(main | feedrecentchanges)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns a recent changes feed.

Parameters:

feedformat: The format of the feed.; One of the following values: atom, rss; Default: rss
namespace: Namespace to limit the results to.; One of the following values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
invert: All namespaces but the selected one.; Type: boolean (details)
associated: Include associated (talk or main) namespace.; Type: boolean (details)
days: Days to limit the results to.; Type: integer; The value must be no less than 1.; Default: 7
limit: Maximum number of results to return.; Type: integer; The value must be between 1 and 50.; Default: 50
from: Show changes since then.; Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
hideminor: Hide minor changes.; Type: boolean (details)
hidebots: Hide changes made by bots.; Type: boolean (details)
hideanons: Hide changes made by anonymous users.; Type: boolean (details)
hideliu: Hide changes made by registered users.; Type: boolean (details)
hidepatrolled: Hide patrolled changes.; Type: boolean (details)
hidemyself: Hide changes made by the current user.; Type: boolean (details)
hidecategorization: Hide category membership changes.; Type: boolean (details)
tagfilter: Filter by tag.
target: Show only changes on pages linked from this page.
showlinkedto: Show changes on pages linked to the selected page instead.; Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Show recent changes.: api.php?action=feedrecentchanges [open in sandbox]
Show recent changes for 30 days.: api.php?action=feedrecentchanges&days=30 [open in sandbox]

action=feedwatchlist

(main | feedwatchlist)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns a watchlist feed.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Watchlist_feed

Parameters:

feedformat

The format of the feed.

One of the following values: atom, rss

Default: rss

hours

List pages modified within this many hours from now.

Type: integer

The value must be between 1 and 72.

Default: 24

linktosections

Link directly to changed sections if possible.

Type: boolean (details)

allrev

Include multiple revisions of the same page within given timeframe.

Type: boolean (details)

wlowner

Used along with token to access a different user's watchlist.

Type: user, by user name

wltoken

A security token (available in the user's preferences) to allow access to another user's watchlist.

wlshow

Show only items that meet these criteria. For example, to see only minor edits done by logged-in users, set show=minor|!anon.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !anon, !autopatrolled, !bot, !minor, !patrolled, !unread, anon, autopatrolled, bot, minor, patrolled, unread

wltype

Which types of changes to show:

edit: Regular page edits.
new: Page creations.
log: Log entries.
external: External changes.
categorize: Category membership changes.

Values (separate with | or alternative): categorize, edit, external, log, new

Default: edit|new|log|categorize

wlexcludeuser

Don't list changes by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

Examples:

Show the watchlist feed.: api.php?action=feedwatchlist [open in sandbox]
Show all changes to watched pages in the past 6 hours.: api.php?action=feedwatchlist&allrev=&hours=6 [open in sandbox]

action=filerevert

(main | filerevert)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Revert a file to an old version.

Parameters:

filename: Target filename, without the File: prefix.; This parameter is required.
comment: Upload comment.; Default: (empty)
archivename: Archive name of the revision to revert to.; This parameter is required.
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Example:

Revert Wiki.png to the version of 2011-03-05T15:27:40Z.: api.php?action=filerevert&filename=Wiki.png&comment=Revert&archivename=20110305152740!Wiki.png&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=help

(main | help)

Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Display help for the specified modules.

Parameters:

modules: Modules to display help for (values of the action and format parameters, or main). Can specify submodules with a +.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).; Default: main
submodules: Include help for submodules of the named module.; Type: boolean (details)
recursivesubmodules: Include help for submodules recursively.; Type: boolean (details)
wrap: Wrap the output in a standard API response structure.; Type: boolean (details)
toc: Include a table of contents in the HTML output.; Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Help for the main module.: api.php?action=help [open in sandbox]
Help for action=query and all its submodules.: api.php?action=help&modules=query&submodules=1 [open in sandbox]
All help in one page.: api.php?action=help&recursivesubmodules=1 [open in sandbox]
Help for the help module itself.: api.php?action=help&modules=help [open in sandbox]
Help for two query submodules.: api.php?action=help&modules=query+info|query+categorymembers [open in sandbox]

action=imagerotate

(main | imagerotate)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Rotate one or more images.

Parameters:

rotation

Degrees to rotate image clockwise.

This parameter is required.

One of the following values: 90, 180, 270

continue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

tags

Tags to apply to the entry in the upload log.

Values (separate with | or alternative):

titles

A list of titles to work on.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

pageids

A list of page IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

revids

A list of revision IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

generator

Get the list of pages to work on by executing the specified query module.

Note: Generator parameter names must be prefixed with a "g", see examples.

allcategories: Enumerate all categories.
alldeletedrevisions: List all deleted revisions by a user or in a namespace.
allfileusages: List all file usages, including non-existing.
allimages: Enumerate all images sequentially.
alllinks: Enumerate all links that point to a given namespace.
allpages: Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace.
allredirects: List all redirects to a namespace.
allrevisions: List all revisions.
alltransclusions: List all transclusions (pages embedded using {{x}}), including non-existing.
backlinks: Find all pages that link to the given page.
categories: List all categories the pages belong to.
categorymembers: List all pages in a given category.
deletedrevisions: Get deleted revision information.
duplicatefiles: List all files that are duplicates of the given files based on hash values.
embeddedin: Find all pages that embed (transclude) the given title.
exturlusage: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.
fileusage: Find all pages that use the given files.
images: Returns all files contained on the given pages.
imageusage: Find all pages that use the given image title.
iwbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given interwiki link.
langbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given language link.
links: Returns all links from the given pages.
linkshere: Find all pages that link to the given pages.
pageswithprop: List all pages using a given page property.
prefixsearch: Perform a prefix search for page titles.
protectedtitles: List all titles protected from creation.
querypage: Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.
random: Get a set of random pages.
recentchanges: Enumerate recent changes.
redirects: Returns all redirects to the given pages.
revisions: Get revision information.
search: Perform a full text search.
templates: Returns all pages transcluded on the given pages.
transcludedin: Find all pages that transclude the given pages.
watchlist: Get recent changes to pages in the current user's watchlist.
watchlistraw: Get all pages on the current user's watchlist.

One of the following values: allcategories, alldeletedrevisions, allfileusages, allimages, alllinks, allpages, allredirects, allrevisions, alltransclusions, backlinks, categories, categorymembers, deletedrevisions, duplicatefiles, embeddedin, exturlusage, fileusage, images, imageusage, iwbacklinks, langbacklinks, links, linkshere, pageswithprop, prefixsearch, protectedtitles, querypage, random, recentchanges, redirects, revisions, search, templates, transcludedin, watchlist, watchlistraw

redirects

Automatically resolve redirects in titles, pageids, and revids, and in pages returned by generator.

Type: boolean (details)

converttitles

Convert titles to other variants if necessary. Only works if the wiki's content language supports variant conversion. Languages that support variant conversion include ban, en, crh, gan, iu, kk, ku, shi, sr, tg, uz and zh.

Type: boolean (details)

token

A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

This parameter is required.

Examples:

Rotate File:Example.png by 90 degrees.: api.php?action=imagerotate&titles=File:Example.jpg&rotation=90&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Rotate all images in Category:Flip by 180 degrees.: api.php?action=imagerotate&generator=categorymembers&gcmtitle=Category:Flip&gcmtype=file&rotation=180&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=import

(main | import)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Import a page from another wiki, or from an XML file.

Note that the HTTP POST must be done as a file upload (i.e. using multipart/form-data) when sending a file for the xml parameter.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Import

Parameters:

summary: Log entry import summary.
xml: Uploaded XML file.; Must be posted as a file upload using multipart/form-data.
interwikiprefix: For uploaded imports: interwiki prefix to apply to unknown user names (and known users if assignknownusers is set).
interwikisource: For interwiki imports: wiki to import from.; One of the following values:
interwikipage: For interwiki imports: page to import.
fullhistory: For interwiki imports: import the full history, not just the current version.; Type: boolean (details)
templates: For interwiki imports: import all included templates as well.; Type: boolean (details)
namespace: Import to this namespace. Cannot be used together with rootpage.; One of the following values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
assignknownusers: Assign edits to local users where the named user exists locally.; Type: boolean (details)
rootpage: Import as subpage of this page. Cannot be used together with namespace.
tags: Change tags to apply to the entry in the import log and to the null revision on the imported pages.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Example:

Import meta:Help:ParserFunctions to namespace 100 with full history.: api.php?action=import&interwikisource=meta&interwikipage=Help:ParserFunctions&namespace=100&fullhistory=&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=linkaccount (link)

(main | linkaccount)

This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Link an account from a third-party provider to the current user.

The general procedure to use this module is:

Fetch the fields available from action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=link, and a csrf token from action=query&meta=tokens.
Present the fields to the user, and obtain their submission.
Post to this module, supplying linkreturnurl and any relevant fields.
Check the status in the response.
- If you received PASS or FAIL, you're done. The operation either succeeded or it didn't.
- If you received UI, present the new fields to the user and obtain their submission. Then post to this module with linkcontinue and the relevant fields set, and repeat step 4.
- If you received REDIRECT, direct the user to the redirecttarget and wait for the return to linkreturnurl. Then post to this module with linkcontinue and any fields passed to the return URL, and repeat step 4.
- If you received RESTART, that means the authentication worked but we don't have a linked user account. You might treat this as UI or as FAIL.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Linkaccount

Parameters:

linkrequests

Only use these authentication requests, by the id returned from action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=link or from a previous response from this module.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

linkmessageformat

Format to use for returning messages.

One of the following values: html, none, raw, wikitext

Default: wikitext

linkmergerequestfields

Merge field information for all authentication requests into one array.

Type: boolean (details)

linkreturnurl

Return URL for third-party authentication flows, must be absolute. Either this or linkcontinue is required.

linkcontinue

This request is a continuation after an earlier UI or REDIRECT response. Either this or linkreturnurl is required.

Type: boolean (details)

linktoken

A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

This parameter is required.

*

This module accepts additional parameters depending on the available authentication requests. Use action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=link (or a previous response from this module, if applicable) to determine the requests available and the fields that they use.

Example:

Start the process of linking to an account from Example.: api.php?action=linkaccount&provider=Example&linkreturnurl=http://example.org/&linktoken=123ABC [open in sandbox]

(main | login)

This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

This action should only be used in combination with Special:BotPasswords; use for main-account login is deprecated and may fail without warning. To safely log in to the main account, use action=clientlogin.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Login

Parameters:

lgname: User name.
lgpassword: Password.
lgdomain: Domain (optional).
lgtoken: A "login" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

Example:

Log in.: api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password&lgtoken=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=logout

(main | logout)

This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Log out and clear session data.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Logout

Parameter:

token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Example:

Log the current user out.: api.php?action=logout&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=managetags

(main | managetags)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Perform management tasks relating to change tags.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tag_management

Parameters:

operation

Which operation to perform:

create: Create a new change tag for manual use.
delete: Remove a change tag from the database, including removing the tag from all revisions, recent change entries and log entries on which it is used.
activate: Activate a change tag, allowing users to apply it manually.
deactivate: Deactivate a change tag, preventing users from applying it manually.

This parameter is required.

One of the following values: activate, create, deactivate, delete

tag

Tag to create, delete, activate or deactivate. For tag creation, the tag must not exist. For tag deletion, the tag must exist. For tag activation, the tag must exist and not be in use by an extension. For tag deactivation, the tag must be currently active and manually defined.

This parameter is required.

reason

An optional reason for creating, deleting, activating or deactivating the tag.

ignorewarnings

Whether to ignore any warnings that are issued during the operation.

Type: boolean (details)

tags

Change tags to apply to the entry in the tag management log.

Values (separate with | or alternative):

token

A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

This parameter is required.

Examples:

Create a tag named spam with the reason For use in edit patrolling: api.php?action=managetags&operation=create&tag=spam&reason=For+use+in+edit+patrolling&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Delete the vandlaism tag with the reason Misspelt: api.php?action=managetags&operation=delete&tag=vandlaism&reason=Misspelt&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Activate a tag named spam with the reason For use in edit patrolling: api.php?action=managetags&operation=activate&tag=spam&reason=For+use+in+edit+patrolling&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Deactivate a tag named spam with the reason No longer required: api.php?action=managetags&operation=deactivate&tag=spam&reason=No+longer+required&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=mergehistory

(main | mergehistory)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Merge page histories.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Mergehistory

Parameters:

from: Title of the page from which history will be merged. Cannot be used together with fromid.
fromid: Page ID of the page from which history will be merged. Cannot be used together with from.; Type: integer
to: Title of the page to which history will be merged. Cannot be used together with toid.
toid: Page ID of the page to which history will be merged. Cannot be used together with to.; Type: integer
timestamp: Timestamp up to which revisions will be moved from the source page's history to the destination page's history. If omitted, the entire page history of the source page will be merged into the destination page.; Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
reason: Reason for the history merge.; Default: (empty)
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Merge the entire history of Oldpage into Newpage.: api.php?action=mergehistory&from=Oldpage&to=Newpage&token=123ABC&reason=Reason [open in sandbox]
Merge the page revisions of Oldpage dating up to 2015-12-31T04:37:41Z into Newpage.: api.php?action=mergehistory&from=Oldpage&to=Newpage&token=123ABC&reason=Reason&timestamp=2015-12-31T04%3A37%3A41Z [open in sandbox]

action=mobileview

(main | mobileview)

This module is deprecated.
This module requires read rights.
Source: MobileFrontend
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns data needed for mobile views.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MobileFrontend#API

Parameters:

page

Title of page to process.

This parameter is required.

redirect

Whether redirects should be followed.

One of the following values: no, yes

Default: yes

sections

Pipe-separated list of section numbers for which to return text. "all" can be used to return for all. Ranges in format "1-4" mean get sections 1,2,3,4. Ranges without second number, e.g. "1-" means get all until the end. "references" can be used to specify that all sections containing references should be returned.

prop

Which information to get:

text: HTML of selected sections.
sections: Information about all sections on the page.
normalizedtitle: Normalized page title.
lastmodified: ISO 8601 timestamp for when the page was last modified, e.g. "2014-04-13T22:42:14Z".
lastmodifiedby: Information about the user who modified the page last.
revision: Return the current revision ID of the page.
protection: Information about protection level.
editable: Whether the current user can edit this page. This includes all factors for logged-in users but not blocked status for anons.
languagecount: Number of languages that the page is available in.
hasvariants: Whether or not the page is available in other language variants.
displaytitle: The rendered title of the page, with {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and such applied.
pageprops: Page properties.

Values (separate with | or alternative): contentmodel, description, displaytitle, editable, hasvariants, id, languagecount, lastmodified, lastmodifiedby, namespace, normalizedtitle, pageprops, protection, revision, sections, text

Default: text|sections|normalizedtitle

sectionprop

What information about sections to get.

Values (separate with | or alternative): anchor, fromtitle, index, level, line, number, toclevel

Default: toclevel|line

pageprops

What page properties to return, a pipe ("|") separated list or "*" for all properties.

Default: notoc|noeditsection|wikibase_item

variant

Convert content into this language variant.

Default: (empty)

noheadings

Don't include headings in output.

Type: boolean (details)

notransform

Don't transform HTML into mobile-specific version.

Type: boolean (details)

onlyrequestedsections

Return only requested sections even with prop=sections.

Type: boolean (details)

offset

Pretend all text result is one string, and return the substring starting at this point.

Type: integer

The value must be no less than 0.

Default: 0

maxlen

Pretend all text result is one string, and limit result to this length.

Type: integer

The value must be no less than 0.

Default: 0

revision

Request a specific revision.

Type: integer

The value must be no less than 0.

Default: 0

Examples:

Get information about section 0 of Doom metal: api.php?action=mobileview&page=Doom_metal&sections=0 [open in sandbox]
Get information about section 0 and sections containing references of Candlemass: api.php?action=mobileview&page=Candlemass&sections=0|references [open in sandbox]
Get information about sections 1 and later and sections containing references of Candlemass: api.php?action=mobileview&page=Candlemass&sections=1-|references [open in sandbox]

action=move

(main | move)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Move a page.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Move

Parameters:

from: Title of the page to rename. Cannot be used together with fromid.
fromid: Page ID of the page to rename. Cannot be used together with from.; Type: integer
to: Title to rename the page to.; This parameter is required.
reason: Reason for the rename.; Default: (empty)
movetalk: Rename the talk page, if it exists.; Type: boolean (details)
movesubpages: Rename subpages, if applicable.; Type: boolean (details)
noredirect: Don't create a redirect.; Type: boolean (details)
watchlist: Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences (ignored for bot users) or do not change watch.; One of the following values: nochange, preferences, unwatch, watch; Default: preferences
ignorewarnings: Ignore any warnings.; Type: boolean (details)
tags: Change tags to apply to the entry in the move log and to the null revision on the destination page.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Example:

Move Badtitle to Goodtitle without leaving a redirect.: api.php?action=move&from=Badtitle&to=Goodtitle&token=123ABC&reason=Misspelled%20title&movetalk=&noredirect= [open in sandbox]

action=opensearch

(main | opensearch)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Search the wiki using the OpenSearch protocol.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Opensearch

Parameters:

search

Search string.

This parameter is required.

namespace

Namespaces to search. Ignored if search begins with a valid namespace prefix.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

Default: 0

limit

Maximum number of results to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

suggest

Deprecated.

No longer used.

Type: boolean (details)

redirects

How to handle redirects:

return: Return the redirect itself.
resolve: Return the target page. May return fewer than limit results.

For historical reasons, the default is "return" for format=json and "resolve" for other formats.

One of the following values: resolve, return

format

The format of the output.

One of the following values: json, jsonfm, xml, xmlfm

Default: json

warningsaserror

If warnings are raised with format=json, return an API error instead of ignoring them.

Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Find pages beginning with Te.: api.php?action=opensearch&search=Te [open in sandbox]

action=options

(main | options)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Change preferences of the current user.

Only options which are registered in core or in one of installed extensions, or options with keys prefixed with userjs- (intended to be used by user scripts), can be set.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Options

Parameters:

reset: Resets preferences to the site defaults.; Type: boolean (details)
resetkinds: List of types of options to reset when the reset option is set.; Values (separate with | or alternative): all, registered, registered-checkmatrix, registered-multiselect, special, unused, userjs; Default: all
change: List of changes, formatted name=value (e.g. skin=vector). If no value is given (not even an equals sign), e.g., optionname|otheroption|..., the option will be reset to its default value. If any value passed contains the pipe character (|), use the alternative multiple-value separator for correct operation.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
optionname: The name of the option that should be set to the value given by optionvalue.
optionvalue: The value for the option specified by optionname.
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Reset all preferences.: api.php?action=options&reset=&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Change skin and hideminor preferences.: api.php?action=options&change=skin=vector|hideminor=1&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Reset all preferences, then set skin and nickname.: api.php?action=options&reset=&change=skin=monobook&optionname=nickname&optionvalue=[[User:Beau|Beau]]%20([[User_talk:Beau|talk]])&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=paraminfo

(main | paraminfo)

Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Obtain information about API modules.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Parameter_information

Parameters:

modules: List of module names (values of the action and format parameters, or main). Can specify submodules with a +, or all submodules with +*, or all submodules recursively with +**.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
helpformat: Format of help strings.; One of the following values: html, none, raw, wikitext; Default: none
querymodules: Deprecated.; List of query module names (value of prop, meta or list parameter). Use modules=query+foo instead of querymodules=foo.; Values (separate with | or alternative): allcategories, alldeletedrevisions, allfileusages, allimages, alllinks, allmessages, allpages, allredirects, allrevisions, alltransclusions, allusers, authmanagerinfo, backlinks, blocks, categories, categoryinfo, categorymembers, contributors, deletedrevisions, deletedrevs, duplicatefiles, embeddedin, extlinks, exturlusage, filearchive, filerepoinfo, fileusage, imageinfo, images, imageusage, info, iwbacklinks, iwlinks, langbacklinks, langlinks, languageinfo, links, linkshere, logevents, mystashedfiles, pagepropnames, pageprops, pageswithprop, prefixsearch, protectedtitles, querypage, random, recentchanges, redirects, revisions, search, siteinfo, stashimageinfo, tags, templates, tokens, transcludedin, usercontribs, userinfo, users, watchlist, watchlistraw; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
mainmodule: Deprecated.; Get information about the main (top-level) module as well. Use modules=main instead.
pagesetmodule: Deprecated.; Get information about the pageset module (providing titles= and friends) as well.
formatmodules: Deprecated.; List of format module names (value of format parameter). Use modules instead.; Values (separate with | or alternative): json, jsonfm, none, php, phpfm, rawfm, xml, xmlfm

Examples:

Show info for action=parse, format=jsonfm, action=query&list=allpages, and action=query&meta=siteinfo.: api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=parse|phpfm|query%2Ballpages|query%2Bsiteinfo [open in sandbox]
Show info for all submodules of action=query.: api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=query%2B* [open in sandbox]

action=parse

(main | parse)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Parses content and returns parser output.

See the various prop-modules of action=query to get information from the current version of a page.

There are several ways to specify the text to parse:

Specify a page or revision, using page, pageid, or oldid.
Specify content explicitly, using text, title, revid, and contentmodel.
Specify only a summary to parse. prop should be given an empty value.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Parsing_wikitext#parse

Parameters:

title

Title of page the text belongs to. If omitted, contentmodel must be specified, and API will be used as the title.

text

Text to parse. Use title or contentmodel to control the content model.

revid

Revision ID, for {{REVISIONID}} and similar variables.

Type: integer

summary

Summary to parse.

page

Parse the content of this page. Cannot be used together with text and title.

pageid

Parse the content of this page. Overrides page.

Type: integer

redirects

If page or pageid is set to a redirect, resolve it.

Type: boolean (details)

oldid

Parse the content of this revision. Overrides page and pageid.

Type: integer

prop

Which pieces of information to get:

text: Gives the parsed text of the wikitext.
langlinks: Gives the language links in the parsed wikitext.
categories: Gives the categories in the parsed wikitext.
categorieshtml: Gives the HTML version of the categories.
links: Gives the internal links in the parsed wikitext.
templates: Gives the templates in the parsed wikitext.
images: Gives the images in the parsed wikitext.
externallinks: Gives the external links in the parsed wikitext.
sections: Gives the sections in the parsed wikitext.
revid: Adds the revision ID of the parsed page.
displaytitle: Adds the title of the parsed wikitext.
subtitle: Adds the page subtitle for the parsed page.
headhtml: Gives parsed doctype, opening <html>, <head> element and opening <body> of the page.
modules: Gives the ResourceLoader modules used on the page. To load, use mw.loader.using(). Either jsconfigvars or encodedjsconfigvars must be requested jointly with modules.
jsconfigvars: Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page. To apply, use mw.config.set().
encodedjsconfigvars: Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page as a JSON string.
indicators: Gives the HTML of page status indicators used on the page.
iwlinks: Gives interwiki links in the parsed wikitext.
wikitext: Gives the original wikitext that was parsed.
properties: Gives various properties defined in the parsed wikitext.
limitreportdata: Gives the limit report in a structured way. Gives no data, when disablelimitreport is set.
limitreporthtml: Gives the HTML version of the limit report. Gives no data, when disablelimitreport is set.
parsetree: The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model wikitext)
parsewarnings: Gives the warnings that occurred while parsing content (as wikitext).
parsewarningshtml: Gives the warnings that occurred while parsing content (as HTML).
headitems: Deprecated. Gives items to put in the <head> of the page.

Values (separate with | or alternative): categories, categorieshtml, displaytitle, encodedjsconfigvars, externallinks, headhtml, images, indicators, iwlinks, jsconfigvars, langlinks, limitreportdata, limitreporthtml, links, modules, parsetree, parsewarnings, parsewarningshtml, properties, revid, sections, subtitle, templates, text, wikitext, headitems

wrapoutputclass

CSS class to use to wrap the parser output.

Default: mw-parser-output

pst

Do a pre-save transform on the input before parsing it. Only valid when used with text.

Type: boolean (details)

onlypst

Do a pre-save transform (PST) on the input, but don't parse it. Returns the same wikitext, after a PST has been applied. Only valid when used with text.

Type: boolean (details)

effectivelanglinks

Deprecated.

Includes language links supplied by extensions (for use with prop=langlinks).

Type: boolean (details)

section

Only parse the content of this section number.

When new, parse text and sectiontitle as if adding a new section to the page.

new is allowed only when specifying text.

sectiontitle

New section title when section is new.

Unlike page editing, this does not fall back to summary when omitted or empty.

disablepp

Deprecated.

Use disablelimitreport instead.

Type: boolean (details)

disablelimitreport

Omit the limit report ("NewPP limit report") from the parser output.

Type: boolean (details)

disableeditsection

Omit edit section links from the parser output.

Type: boolean (details)

disablestylededuplication

Do not deduplicate inline stylesheets in the parser output.

Type: boolean (details)

generatexml

Deprecated.

Generate XML parse tree (requires content model wikitext; replaced by prop=parsetree).

Type: boolean (details)

preview

Parse in preview mode.

Type: boolean (details)

sectionpreview

Parse in section preview mode (enables preview mode too).

Type: boolean (details)

disabletoc

Omit table of contents in output.

Type: boolean (details)

useskin

Apply the selected skin to the parser output. May affect the following properties: langlinks, headitems, modules, jsconfigvars, indicators.

One of the following values: minerva, monobook, timeless, vector

contentformat

Content serialization format used for the input text. Only valid when used with text.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

contentmodel

Content model of the input text. If omitted, title must be specified, and default will be the model of the specified title. Only valid when used with text.

One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext

mobileformat

Return parse output in a format suitable for mobile devices.

Type: boolean (details)

mainpage

Apply mobile main page transformations.

Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Parse a page.: api.php?action=parse&page=Project:Sandbox [open in sandbox]
Parse wikitext.: api.php?action=parse&text={{Project:Sandbox}}&contentmodel=wikitext [open in sandbox]
Parse wikitext, specifying the page title.: api.php?action=parse&text={{PAGENAME}}&title=Test [open in sandbox]
Parse a summary.: api.php?action=parse&summary=Some+[[link]]&prop= [open in sandbox]

action=patrol

(main | patrol)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Patrol a page or revision.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Patrol

Parameters:

rcid: Recentchanges ID to patrol.; Type: integer
revid: Revision ID to patrol.; Type: integer
tags: Change tags to apply to the entry in the patrol log.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
token: A "patrol" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Patrol a recent change.: api.php?action=patrol&token=123ABC&rcid=230672766 [open in sandbox]
Patrol a revision.: api.php?action=patrol&token=123ABC&revid=230672766 [open in sandbox]

action=protect

(main | protect)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Change the protection level of a page.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Protect

Parameters:

title

Title of the page to (un)protect. Cannot be used together with pageid.

pageid

ID of the page to (un)protect. Cannot be used together with title.

Type: integer

protections

List of protection levels, formatted action=level (e.g. edit=sysop). A level of all means everyone is allowed to take the action, i.e. no restriction.

Note: Any actions not listed will have restrictions removed.

This parameter is required.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

expiry

Expiry timestamps. If only one timestamp is set, it'll be used for all protections. Use infinite, indefinite, infinity, or never, for a never-expiring protection.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

Default: infinite

reason

Reason for (un)protecting.

Default: (empty)

tags

Change tags to apply to the entry in the protection log.

Values (separate with | or alternative):

cascade

Enable cascading protection (i.e. protect transcluded templates and images used in this page). Ignored if none of the given protection levels support cascading.

Type: boolean (details)

watch

Deprecated.

If set, add the page being (un)protected to the current user's watchlist.

Type: boolean (details)

watchlist

Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences (ignored for bot users) or do not change watch.

One of the following values: nochange, preferences, unwatch, watch

Default: preferences

token

A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

This parameter is required.

Examples:

Protect a page.: api.php?action=protect&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&protections=edit=sysop|move=sysop&cascade=&expiry=20070901163000|never [open in sandbox]
Unprotect a page by setting restrictions to all (i.e. everyone is allowed to take the action).: api.php?action=protect&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&protections=edit=all|move=all&reason=Lifting%20restrictions [open in sandbox]
Unprotect a page by setting no restrictions.: api.php?action=protect&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&protections=&reason=Lifting%20restrictions [open in sandbox]

action=purge

(main | purge)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Purge the cache for the given titles.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Purge

Parameters:

forcelinkupdate

Update the links tables and do other secondary data updates.

Type: boolean (details)

forcerecursivelinkupdate

Same as forcelinkupdate, and update the links tables for any page that uses this page as a template.

Type: boolean (details)

continue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

titles

A list of titles to work on.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

pageids

A list of page IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

revids

A list of revision IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

generator

Get the list of pages to work on by executing the specified query module.

Note: Generator parameter names must be prefixed with a "g", see examples.

allcategories: Enumerate all categories.
alldeletedrevisions: List all deleted revisions by a user or in a namespace.
allfileusages: List all file usages, including non-existing.
allimages: Enumerate all images sequentially.
alllinks: Enumerate all links that point to a given namespace.
allpages: Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace.
allredirects: List all redirects to a namespace.
allrevisions: List all revisions.
alltransclusions: List all transclusions (pages embedded using {{x}}), including non-existing.
backlinks: Find all pages that link to the given page.
categories: List all categories the pages belong to.
categorymembers: List all pages in a given category.
deletedrevisions: Get deleted revision information.
duplicatefiles: List all files that are duplicates of the given files based on hash values.
embeddedin: Find all pages that embed (transclude) the given title.
exturlusage: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.
fileusage: Find all pages that use the given files.
images: Returns all files contained on the given pages.
imageusage: Find all pages that use the given image title.
iwbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given interwiki link.
langbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given language link.
links: Returns all links from the given pages.
linkshere: Find all pages that link to the given pages.
pageswithprop: List all pages using a given page property.
prefixsearch: Perform a prefix search for page titles.
protectedtitles: List all titles protected from creation.
querypage: Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.
random: Get a set of random pages.
recentchanges: Enumerate recent changes.
redirects: Returns all redirects to the given pages.
revisions: Get revision information.
search: Perform a full text search.
templates: Returns all pages transcluded on the given pages.
transcludedin: Find all pages that transclude the given pages.
watchlist: Get recent changes to pages in the current user's watchlist.
watchlistraw: Get all pages on the current user's watchlist.

redirects

Automatically resolve redirects in titles, pageids, and revids, and in pages returned by generator.

Type: boolean (details)

converttitles

Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Purge the Main Page and the API page.: api.php?action=purge&titles=Main_Page|API [open in sandbox]
Purge the first 10 pages in the main namespace.: api.php?action=purge&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&gaplimit=10 [open in sandbox]

action=query

(main | query)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Fetch data from and about MediaWiki.

All data modifications will first have to use query to acquire a token to prevent abuse from malicious sites.

Parameters:

prop

Which properties to get for the queried pages.

categories: List all categories the pages belong to.
categoryinfo: Returns information about the given categories.
contributors: Get the list of logged-in contributors and the count of anonymous contributors to a page.
deletedrevisions: Get deleted revision information.
duplicatefiles: List all files that are duplicates of the given files based on hash values.
extlinks: Returns all external URLs (not interwikis) from the given pages.
fileusage: Find all pages that use the given files.
imageinfo: Returns file information and upload history.
images: Returns all files contained on the given pages.
info: Get basic page information.
iwlinks: Returns all interwiki links from the given pages.
langlinks: Returns all interlanguage links from the given pages.
links: Returns all links from the given pages.
linkshere: Find all pages that link to the given pages.
pageprops: Get various page properties defined in the page content.
redirects: Returns all redirects to the given pages.
revisions: Get revision information.
stashimageinfo: Returns file information for stashed files.
templates: Returns all pages transcluded on the given pages.
transcludedin: Find all pages that transclude the given pages.

Values (separate with | or alternative): categories, categoryinfo, contributors, deletedrevisions, duplicatefiles, extlinks, fileusage, imageinfo, images, info, iwlinks, langlinks, links, linkshere, pageprops, redirects, revisions, stashimageinfo, templates, transcludedin

list

Which lists to get.

allcategories: Enumerate all categories.
alldeletedrevisions: List all deleted revisions by a user or in a namespace.
allfileusages: List all file usages, including non-existing.
allimages: Enumerate all images sequentially.
alllinks: Enumerate all links that point to a given namespace.
allpages: Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace.
allredirects: List all redirects to a namespace.
allrevisions: List all revisions.
alltransclusions: List all transclusions (pages embedded using {{x}}), including non-existing.
allusers: Enumerate all registered users.
backlinks: Find all pages that link to the given page.
blocks: List all blocked users and IP addresses.
categorymembers: List all pages in a given category.
embeddedin: Find all pages that embed (transclude) the given title.
exturlusage: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.
filearchive: Enumerate all deleted files sequentially.
imageusage: Find all pages that use the given image title.
iwbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given interwiki link.
langbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given language link.
logevents: Get events from logs.
mystashedfiles: Get a list of files in the current user's upload stash.
pagepropnames: List all page property names in use on the wiki.
pageswithprop: List all pages using a given page property.
prefixsearch: Perform a prefix search for page titles.
protectedtitles: List all titles protected from creation.
querypage: Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.
random: Get a set of random pages.
recentchanges: Enumerate recent changes.
search: Perform a full text search.
tags: List change tags.
usercontribs: Get all edits by a user.
users: Get information about a list of users.
watchlist: Get recent changes to pages in the current user's watchlist.
watchlistraw: Get all pages on the current user's watchlist.
deletedrevs: Deprecated. List deleted revisions.

Values (separate with | or alternative): allcategories, alldeletedrevisions, allfileusages, allimages, alllinks, allpages, allredirects, allrevisions, alltransclusions, allusers, backlinks, blocks, categorymembers, embeddedin, exturlusage, filearchive, imageusage, iwbacklinks, langbacklinks, logevents, mystashedfiles, pagepropnames, pageswithprop, prefixsearch, protectedtitles, querypage, random, recentchanges, search, tags, usercontribs, users, watchlist, watchlistraw, deletedrevs

meta

Which metadata to get.

allmessages: Return messages from this site.
authmanagerinfo: Retrieve information about the current authentication status.
filerepoinfo: Return meta information about image repositories configured on the wiki.
languageinfo: Return information about available languages.
siteinfo: Return general information about the site.
tokens: Gets tokens for data-modifying actions.
userinfo: Get information about the current user.

Values (separate with | or alternative): allmessages, authmanagerinfo, filerepoinfo, languageinfo, siteinfo, tokens, userinfo

indexpageids

Include an additional pageids section listing all returned page IDs.

Type: boolean (details)

export

Export the current revisions of all given or generated pages.

Type: boolean (details)

exportnowrap

Return the export XML without wrapping it in an XML result (same format as Special:Export). Can only be used with query+export.

Type: boolean (details)

exportschema

Target the given version of the XML dump format when exporting. Can only be used with query+export.

One of the following values: 0.10, 0.11

Default: 0.11

iwurl

Whether to get the full URL if the title is an interwiki link.

Type: boolean (details)

continue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

rawcontinue

Return raw query-continue data for continuation.

Type: boolean (details)

titles

A list of titles to work on.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

pageids

A list of page IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

revids

A list of revision IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

generator

Get the list of pages to work on by executing the specified query module.

Note: Generator parameter names must be prefixed with a "g", see examples.

allcategories: Enumerate all categories.
alldeletedrevisions: List all deleted revisions by a user or in a namespace.
allfileusages: List all file usages, including non-existing.
allimages: Enumerate all images sequentially.
alllinks: Enumerate all links that point to a given namespace.
allpages: Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace.
allredirects: List all redirects to a namespace.
allrevisions: List all revisions.
alltransclusions: List all transclusions (pages embedded using {{x}}), including non-existing.
backlinks: Find all pages that link to the given page.
categories: List all categories the pages belong to.
categorymembers: List all pages in a given category.
deletedrevisions: Get deleted revision information.
duplicatefiles: List all files that are duplicates of the given files based on hash values.
embeddedin: Find all pages that embed (transclude) the given title.
exturlusage: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.
fileusage: Find all pages that use the given files.
images: Returns all files contained on the given pages.
imageusage: Find all pages that use the given image title.
iwbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given interwiki link.
langbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given language link.
links: Returns all links from the given pages.
linkshere: Find all pages that link to the given pages.
pageswithprop: List all pages using a given page property.
prefixsearch: Perform a prefix search for page titles.
protectedtitles: List all titles protected from creation.
querypage: Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.
random: Get a set of random pages.
recentchanges: Enumerate recent changes.
redirects: Returns all redirects to the given pages.
revisions: Get revision information.
search: Perform a full text search.
templates: Returns all pages transcluded on the given pages.
transcludedin: Find all pages that transclude the given pages.
watchlist: Get recent changes to pages in the current user's watchlist.
watchlistraw: Get all pages on the current user's watchlist.

redirects

Automatically resolve redirects in query+titles, query+pageids, and query+revids, and in pages returned by query+generator.

Type: boolean (details)

converttitles

Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Fetch site info and revisions of Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&meta=siteinfo&titles=Main%20Page&rvprop=user|comment&continue= [open in sandbox]
Fetch revisions of pages beginning with API/.: api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gapprefix=API/&prop=revisions&continue= [open in sandbox]

prop=categories (cl)

(main | query | categories)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all categories the pages belong to.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Categories

Parameters:

clprop

Which additional properties to get for each category:

sortkey: Adds the sortkey (hexadecimal string) and sortkey prefix (human-readable part) for the category.
timestamp: Adds timestamp of when the category was added.
hidden: Tags categories that are hidden with __HIDDENCAT__.

Values (separate with | or alternative): hidden, sortkey, timestamp

clshow

Which kind of categories to show.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !hidden, hidden

cllimit

How many categories to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

clcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

clcategories

Only list these categories. Useful for checking whether a certain page is in a certain category.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

cldir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

Examples:

Get a list of categories the page Albert Einstein belongs to.: api.php?action=query&prop=categories&titles=Albert%20Einstein [open in sandbox]
Get information about all categories used in the page Albert Einstein.: api.php?action=query&generator=categories&titles=Albert%20Einstein&prop=info [open in sandbox]

prop=categoryinfo (ci)

(main | query | categoryinfo)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns information about the given categories.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Categoryinfo

Parameter:

cicontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.

Example:

Get information about Category:Foo and Category:Bar.: api.php?action=query&prop=categoryinfo&titles=Category:Foo|Category:Bar [open in sandbox]

prop=contributors (pc)

(main | query | contributors)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get the list of logged-in contributors and the count of anonymous contributors to a page.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Contributors

Parameters:

pcgroup: Only include users in the given groups. Does not include implicit or auto-promoted groups like *, user, or autoconfirmed.; Values (separate with | or alternative): bot, bureaucrat, interface-admin, suppress, sysop
pcexcludegroup: Exclude users in the given groups. Does not include implicit or auto-promoted groups like *, user, or autoconfirmed.; Values (separate with | or alternative): bot, bureaucrat, interface-admin, suppress, sysop
pcrights: Only include users having the given rights. Does not include rights granted by implicit or auto-promoted groups like *, user, or autoconfirmed.; Values (separate with | or alternative): apihighlimits, applychangetags, autoconfirmed, autocreateaccount, autopatrol, bigdelete, block, blockemail, bot, browsearchive, changetags, createaccount, createpage, createtalk, delete, delete-redirect, deletechangetags, deletedhistory, deletedtext, deletelogentry, deleterevision, edit, editcontentmodel, editinterface, editmyoptions, editmyprivateinfo, editmyusercss, editmyuserjs, editmyuserjson, editmyuserjsredirect, editmywatchlist, editprotected, editsemiprotected, editsitecss, editsitejs, editsitejson, editusercss, edituserjs, edituserjson, hideuser, import, importupload, ipblock-exempt, managechangetags, markbotedits, mergehistory, minoredit, move, move-categorypages, move-rootuserpages, move-subpages, movefile, nominornewtalk, noratelimit, override-export-depth, pagelang, patrol, patrolmarks, protect, purge, read, reupload, reupload-own, reupload-shared, rollback, sendemail, siteadmin, skipcaptcha, suppressionlog, suppressredirect, suppressrevision, unblockself, undelete, unwatchedpages, upload, upload_by_url, userrights, userrights-interwiki, viewmyprivateinfo, viewmywatchlist, viewsuppressed, writeapi; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
pcexcluderights: Exclude users having the given rights. Does not include rights granted by implicit or auto-promoted groups like *, user, or autoconfirmed.; Values (separate with | or alternative): apihighlimits, applychangetags, autoconfirmed, autocreateaccount, autopatrol, bigdelete, block, blockemail, bot, browsearchive, changetags, createaccount, createpage, createtalk, delete, delete-redirect, deletechangetags, deletedhistory, deletedtext, deletelogentry, deleterevision, edit, editcontentmodel, editinterface, editmyoptions, editmyprivateinfo, editmyusercss, editmyuserjs, editmyuserjson, editmyuserjsredirect, editmywatchlist, editprotected, editsemiprotected, editsitecss, editsitejs, editsitejson, editusercss, edituserjs, edituserjson, hideuser, import, importupload, ipblock-exempt, managechangetags, markbotedits, mergehistory, minoredit, move, move-categorypages, move-rootuserpages, move-subpages, movefile, nominornewtalk, noratelimit, override-export-depth, pagelang, patrol, patrolmarks, protect, purge, read, reupload, reupload-own, reupload-shared, rollback, sendemail, siteadmin, skipcaptcha, suppressionlog, suppressredirect, suppressrevision, unblockself, undelete, unwatchedpages, upload, upload_by_url, userrights, userrights-interwiki, viewmyprivateinfo, viewmywatchlist, viewsuppressed, writeapi; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
pclimit: How many contributors to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
pccontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.

Example:

Show contributors to the page Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=contributors&titles=Main_Page [open in sandbox]

prop=deletedrevisions (drv)

(main | query | deletedrevisions)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get deleted revision information.

May be used in several ways:

Get deleted revisions for a set of pages, by setting titles or pageids. Ordered by title and timestamp.
Get data about a set of deleted revisions by setting their IDs with revids. Ordered by revision ID.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Deletedrevisions

Parameters:

drvprop

Which properties to get for each revision:

ids: The ID of the revision.
flags: Revision flags (minor).
timestamp: The timestamp of the revision.
user: User that made the revision. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
userid: User ID of the revision creator. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
size: Length (bytes) of the revision.
slotsize: Length (bytes) of each revision slot.
sha1: SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision. If the content has been revision deleted, a sha1hidden property will be returned.
slotsha1: SHA-1 (base 16) of each revision slot. If the content has been revision deleted, a sha1hidden property will be returned.
contentmodel: Content model ID of each revision slot.
comment: Comment by the user for the revision. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: Parsed comment by the user for the revision. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
content: Content of each revision slot. If the content has been revision deleted, a texthidden property will be returned.
tags: Tags for the revision.
roles: List content slot roles that exist in the revision.
parsetree: Deprecated. Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model wikitext).

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, content, contentmodel, flags, ids, parsedcomment, roles, sha1, size, slotsha1, slotsize, tags, timestamp, user, userid, parsetree

Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user

drvslots

Which revision slots to return data for, when slot-related properties are included in drvprops. If omitted, data from the main slot will be returned in a backwards-compatible format.

Values (separate with | or alternative): main

To specify all values, use *.

drvlimit

Limit how many revisions will be returned.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

drvexpandtemplates

Deprecated.

Use action=expandtemplates instead. Expand templates in revision content (requires drvprop=content).

Type: boolean (details)

drvgeneratexml

Deprecated.

Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires drvprop=content).

Type: boolean (details)

drvparse

Deprecated.

Use action=parse instead. Parse revision content (requires drvprop=content). For performance reasons, if this option is used, drvlimit is enforced to 1.

Type: boolean (details)

drvsection

Only retrieve the content of this section number.

drvdiffto

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.

drvdifftotext

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Text to diff each revision to. Only diffs a limited number of revisions. Overrides drvdiffto. If drvsection is set, only that section will be diffed against this text.

drvdifftotextpst

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Perform a pre-save transform on the text before diffing it. Only valid when used with drvdifftotext.

Type: boolean (details)

drvcontentformat

Deprecated.

Serialization format used for drvdifftotext and expected for output of content.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

drvstart

The timestamp to start enumerating from. Ignored when processing a list of revision IDs.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

drvend

The timestamp to stop enumerating at. Ignored when processing a list of revision IDs.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

drvdir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: drvstart has to be before drvend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: drvstart has to be later than drvend.

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

drvtag

Only list revisions tagged with this tag.

drvuser

Only list revisions by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

drvexcludeuser

Don't list revisions by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

drvcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

List the deleted revisions of the pages Main Page and Talk:Main Page, with content.: api.php?action=query&prop=deletedrevisions&titles=Main%20Page|Talk:Main%20Page&drvslots=*&drvprop=user|comment|content [open in sandbox]
List the information for deleted revision 123456.: api.php?action=query&prop=deletedrevisions&revids=123456 [open in sandbox]

prop=duplicatefiles (df)

(main | query | duplicatefiles)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all files that are duplicates of the given files based on hash values.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Duplicatefiles

Parameters:

dflimit: How many duplicate files to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
dfcontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
dfdir: The direction in which to list.; One of the following values: ascending, descending; Default: ascending
dflocalonly: Look only for files in the local repository.; Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Look for duplicates of File:Albert Einstein Head.jpg.: api.php?action=query&titles=File:Albert_Einstein_Head.jpg&prop=duplicatefiles [open in sandbox]
Look for duplicates of all files.: api.php?action=query&generator=allimages&prop=duplicatefiles [open in sandbox]

prop=extlinks (el)

(main | query | extlinks)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns all external URLs (not interwikis) from the given pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Extlinks

Parameters:

ellimit: How many links to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
elcontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
elprotocol: Protocol of the URL. If empty and elquery is set, the protocol is http. Leave both this and elquery empty to list all external links.; One of the following values: Can be empty, or bitcoin, ftp, ftps, geo, git, gopher, http, https, irc, ircs, magnet, mailto, mms, news, nntp, redis, sftp, sip, sips, sms, ssh, svn, tel, telnet, urn, worldwind, xmpp; Default: (empty)
elquery: Search string without protocol. Useful for checking whether a certain page contains a certain external url.
elexpandurl: Expand protocol-relative URLs with the canonical protocol.; Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Get a list of external links on Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=extlinks&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]

prop=fileusage (fu)

(main | query | fileusage)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Find all pages that use the given files.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Fileusage

Parameters:

fuprop

Which properties to get:

pageid: Page ID of each page.
title: Title of each page.
redirect: Flag if the page is a redirect.

Values (separate with | or alternative): pageid, redirect, title

Default: pageid|title|redirect

funamespace

Only include pages in these namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

fushow

Show only items that meet these criteria:

redirect: Only show redirects.
!redirect: Only show non-redirects.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !redirect, redirect

fulimit

How many to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

fucontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

Get a list of pages using File:Example.jpg.: api.php?action=query&prop=fileusage&titles=File%3AExample.jpg [open in sandbox]
Get information about pages using File:Example.jpg.: api.php?action=query&generator=fileusage&titles=File%3AExample.jpg&prop=info [open in sandbox]

prop=imageinfo (ii)

(main | query | imageinfo)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns file information and upload history.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Imageinfo

Parameters:

iiprop

Which file information to get:

timestamp: Adds timestamp for the uploaded version.
user: Adds the user who uploaded each file version. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
userid: Add the ID of the user that uploaded each file version. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
comment: Comment on the version. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: Parse the comment on the version. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
canonicaltitle: Adds the canonical title of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
url: Gives URL to the file and the description page. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
size: Adds the size of the file in bytes and the height, width and page count (if applicable).
dimensions: Alias for size.
sha1: Adds SHA-1 hash for the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
mime: Adds MIME type of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
thumbmime: Adds MIME type of the image thumbnail (requires url and param iiurlwidth). If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
mediatype: Adds the media type of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
metadata: Lists Exif metadata for the version of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
commonmetadata: Lists file format generic metadata for the version of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
extmetadata: Lists formatted metadata combined from multiple sources. Results are HTML formatted. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
archivename: Adds the filename of the archive version for non-latest versions. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
bitdepth: Adds the bit depth of the version. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
uploadwarning: Used by the Special:Upload page to get information about an existing file. Not intended for use outside MediaWiki core.
badfile: Adds whether the file is on the MediaWiki:Bad image list

Values (separate with | or alternative): archivename, badfile, bitdepth, canonicaltitle, comment, commonmetadata, dimensions, extmetadata, mediatype, metadata, mime, parsedcomment, sha1, size, thumbmime, timestamp, uploadwarning, url, user, userid

Default: timestamp|user

iilimit

How many file revisions to return per file.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 1

iistart

Timestamp to start listing from.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

iiend

Timestamp to stop listing at.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

iiurlwidth

If iiprop=url is set, a URL to an image scaled to this width will be returned. For performance reasons if this option is used, no more than 50 scaled images will be returned.

Type: integer

Default: -1

iiurlheight

Similar to iiurlwidth.

Type: integer

Default: -1

iimetadataversion

Version of metadata to use. If latest is specified, use latest version. Defaults to 1 for backwards compatibility.

Default: 1

iiextmetadatalanguage

What language to fetch extmetadata in. This affects both which translation to fetch, if multiple are available, as well as how things like numbers and various values are formatted.

Default: en

iiextmetadatamultilang

If translations for extmetadata property are available, fetch all of them.

Type: boolean (details)

iiextmetadatafilter

If specified and non-empty, only these keys will be returned for iiprop=extmetadata.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

iiurlparam

A handler specific parameter string. For example, PDFs might use page15-100px. iiurlwidth must be used and be consistent with iiurlparam.

Default: (empty)

iibadfilecontexttitle

If badfilecontexttitleprop=badfile is set, this is the page title used when evaluating the MediaWiki:Bad image list

iicontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

iilocalonly

Look only for files in the local repository.

Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Fetch information about the current version of File:Albert Einstein Head.jpg.: api.php?action=query&titles=File:Albert%20Einstein%20Head.jpg&prop=imageinfo [open in sandbox]
Fetch information about versions of File:Test.jpg from 2008 and later.: api.php?action=query&titles=File:Test.jpg&prop=imageinfo&iilimit=50&iiend=2007-12-31T23:59:59Z&iiprop=timestamp|user|url [open in sandbox]

prop=images (im)

(main | query | images)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns all files contained on the given pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Images

Parameters:

imlimit: How many files to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
imcontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
imimages: Only list these files. Useful for checking whether a certain page has a certain file.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
imdir: The direction in which to list.; One of the following values: ascending, descending; Default: ascending

Examples:

Get a list of files used in the Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=images&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
Get information about all files used in the Main Page.: api.php?action=query&generator=images&titles=Main%20Page&prop=info [open in sandbox]

prop=info (in)

(main | query | info)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get basic page information.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Info

Parameters:

inprop

Which additional properties to get:

protection: List the protection level of each page.
talkid: The page ID of the talk page for each non-talk page.
watched: List the watched status of each page.
watchers: The number of watchers, if allowed.
visitingwatchers: The number of watchers of each page who have visited recent edits to that page, if allowed.
notificationtimestamp: The watchlist notification timestamp of each page.
subjectid: The page ID of the parent page for each talk page.
url: Gives a full URL, an edit URL, and the canonical URL for each page.
readable: Deprecated. Whether the user can read this page. Use intestactions=read instead.
preload: Gives the text returned by EditFormPreloadText.
displaytitle: Gives the manner in which the page title is actually displayed.
varianttitles: Gives the display title in all variants of the site content language.
linkclasses: Gives the additional CSS classes (e.g. link colors) used for links to this page if they were to appear on the page named by inlinkcontext.

Values (separate with | or alternative): displaytitle, linkclasses, notificationtimestamp, preload, protection, subjectid, talkid, url, varianttitles, visitingwatchers, watched, watchers, readable

inlinkcontext

The context title to use when determining extra CSS classes (e.g. link colors) when inprop contains linkclasses.

Type: page title

Accepts non-existent pages.

Default: Main Page

intestactions

Test whether the current user can perform certain actions on the page.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

intestactionsdetail

Detail level for intestactions. Use the main module's errorformat and errorlang parameters to control the format of the messages returned.

boolean: Return a boolean value for each action.
full: Return messages describing why the action is disallowed, or an empty array if it is allowed.
quick: Like full but skipping expensive checks.

One of the following values: boolean, full, quick

Default: boolean

intoken

Deprecated.

Use action=query&meta=tokens instead.

Values (separate with | or alternative): block, delete, edit, email, import, move, protect, unblock, watch

incontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

Get information about the page Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
Get general and protection information about the page Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=info&inprop=protection&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]

prop=iwlinks (iw)

(main | query | iwlinks)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns all interwiki links from the given pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Iwlinks

Parameters:

iwprop

Which additional properties to get for each interwiki link:

url: Adds the full URL.

Values (separate with | or alternative): url

iwprefix

Only return interwiki links with this prefix.

iwtitle

Interwiki link to search for. Must be used with iwprefix.

iwdir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

iwlimit

How many interwiki links to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

iwcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

iwurl

Deprecated.

Whether to get the full URL (cannot be used with iwprop).

Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Get interwiki links from the page Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=iwlinks&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]

prop=langlinks (ll)

(main | query | langlinks)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns all interlanguage links from the given pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Langlinks

Parameters:

llprop

Which additional properties to get for each interlanguage link:

url: Adds the full URL.
langname: Adds the localised language name (best effort). Use llinlanguagecode to control the language.
autonym: Adds the native language name.

Values (separate with | or alternative): autonym, langname, url

lllang

Only return language links with this language code.

lltitle

Link to search for. Must be used with lllang.

lldir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

llinlanguagecode

Language code for localised language names.

Default: en

lllimit

How many langlinks to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

llcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

llurl

Deprecated.

Whether to get the full URL (cannot be used with llprop).

Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Get interlanguage links from the page Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&titles=Main%20Page&redirects= [open in sandbox]

prop=links (pl)

(main | query | links)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns all links from the given pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Links

Parameters:

plnamespace: Show links in these namespaces only.; Values (separate with | or alternative): -1, -2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; To specify all values, use *.
pllimit: How many links to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
plcontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
pltitles: Only list links to these titles. Useful for checking whether a certain page links to a certain title.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
pldir: The direction in which to list.; One of the following values: ascending, descending; Default: ascending

Examples:

Get links from the page Main Page: api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
Get information about the link pages in the page Main Page.: api.php?action=query&generator=links&titles=Main%20Page&prop=info [open in sandbox]
Get links from the page Main Page in the User and Template namespaces.: api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=Main%20Page&plnamespace=2|10 [open in sandbox]

prop=linkshere (lh)

(main | query | linkshere)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Find all pages that link to the given pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Linkshere

Parameters:

lhprop

Which properties to get:

pageid: Page ID of each page.
title: Title of each page.
redirect: Flag if the page is a redirect.

Values (separate with | or alternative): pageid, redirect, title

Default: pageid|title|redirect

lhnamespace

Only include pages in these namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

lhshow

Show only items that meet these criteria:

redirect: Only show redirects.
!redirect: Only show non-redirects.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !redirect, redirect

lhlimit

How many to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

lhcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

Get a list of pages linking to the Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=linkshere&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
Get information about pages linking to the Main Page.: api.php?action=query&generator=linkshere&titles=Main%20Page&prop=info [open in sandbox]

prop=pageprops (pp)

(main | query | pageprops)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get various page properties defined in the page content.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Pageprops

Parameters:

ppcontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
ppprop: Only list these page properties (action=query&list=pagepropnames returns page property names in use). Useful for checking whether pages use a certain page property.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

Example:

Get properties for the pages Main Page and MediaWiki.: api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&titles=Main%20Page|MediaWiki [open in sandbox]

prop=redirects (rd)

(main | query | redirects)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns all redirects to the given pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Redirects

Parameters:

rdprop

Which properties to get:

pageid: Page ID of each redirect.
title: Title of each redirect.
fragment: Fragment of each redirect, if any.

Values (separate with | or alternative): fragment, pageid, title

Default: pageid|title

rdnamespace

Only include pages in these namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

rdshow

Show only items that meet these criteria:

fragment: Only show redirects with a fragment.
!fragment: Only show redirects without a fragment.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !fragment, fragment

rdlimit

How many redirects to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

rdcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

Get a list of redirects to the Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=redirects&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
Get information about all redirects to the Main Page.: api.php?action=query&generator=redirects&titles=Main%20Page&prop=info [open in sandbox]

prop=revisions (rv)

(main | query | revisions)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get revision information.

May be used in several ways:

Get data about a set of pages (last revision), by setting titles or pageids.
Get revisions for one given page, by using titles or pageids with start, end, or limit.
Get data about a set of revisions by setting their IDs with revids.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Revisions

Parameters:

rvprop

Which properties to get for each revision:

ids: The ID of the revision.
flags: Revision flags (minor).
timestamp: The timestamp of the revision.
user: User that made the revision. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
userid: User ID of the revision creator. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
size: Length (bytes) of the revision.
slotsize: Length (bytes) of each revision slot.
sha1: SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision. If the content has been revision deleted, a sha1hidden property will be returned.
slotsha1: SHA-1 (base 16) of each revision slot. If the content has been revision deleted, a sha1hidden property will be returned.
contentmodel: Content model ID of each revision slot.
comment: Comment by the user for the revision. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: Parsed comment by the user for the revision. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
content: Content of each revision slot. If the content has been revision deleted, a texthidden property will be returned.
tags: Tags for the revision.
roles: List content slot roles that exist in the revision.
parsetree: Deprecated. Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model wikitext).

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, content, contentmodel, flags, ids, parsedcomment, roles, sha1, size, slotsha1, slotsize, tags, timestamp, user, userid, parsetree

Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user

rvslots

Which revision slots to return data for, when slot-related properties are included in rvprops. If omitted, data from the main slot will be returned in a backwards-compatible format.

Values (separate with | or alternative): main

To specify all values, use *.

rvlimit

Limit how many revisions will be returned.

May only be used with a single page (mode #2).

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

rvexpandtemplates

Deprecated.

Use action=expandtemplates instead. Expand templates in revision content (requires rvprop=content).

Type: boolean (details)

rvgeneratexml

Deprecated.

Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires rvprop=content).

Type: boolean (details)

rvparse

Deprecated.

Use action=parse instead. Parse revision content (requires rvprop=content). For performance reasons, if this option is used, rvlimit is enforced to 1.

Type: boolean (details)

rvsection

Only retrieve the content of this section number.

rvdiffto

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.

rvdifftotext

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Text to diff each revision to. Only diffs a limited number of revisions. Overrides rvdiffto. If rvsection is set, only that section will be diffed against this text.

rvdifftotextpst

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Perform a pre-save transform on the text before diffing it. Only valid when used with rvdifftotext.

Type: boolean (details)

rvcontentformat

Deprecated.

Serialization format used for rvdifftotext and expected for output of content.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

rvstartid

Start enumeration from this revision's timestamp. The revision must exist, but need not belong to this page.

May only be used with a single page (mode #2).

Type: integer

rvendid

Stop enumeration at this revision's timestamp. The revision must exist, but need not belong to this page.

May only be used with a single page (mode #2).

Type: integer

rvstart

From which revision timestamp to start enumeration.

May only be used with a single page (mode #2).

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

rvend

Enumerate up to this timestamp.

May only be used with a single page (mode #2).

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

rvdir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: rvstart has to be before rvend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: rvstart has to be later than rvend.

May only be used with a single page (mode #2).

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

rvuser

Only include revisions made by user.

May only be used with a single page (mode #2).

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

rvexcludeuser

Exclude revisions made by user.

May only be used with a single page (mode #2).

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

rvtag

Only list revisions tagged with this tag.

rvtoken

Deprecated.

Which tokens to obtain for each revision.

Values (separate with | or alternative): rollback

rvcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

Get data with content for the last revision of titles API and Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=API|Main%20Page&rvslots=*&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment|content [open in sandbox]
Get last 5 revisions of the Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvlimit=5&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment [open in sandbox]
Get first 5 revisions of the Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvlimit=5&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment&rvdir=newer [open in sandbox]
Get first 5 revisions of the Main Page made after 2006-05-01.: api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvlimit=5&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment&rvdir=newer&rvstart=2006-05-01T00:00:00Z [open in sandbox]
Get first 5 revisions of the Main Page that were not made by anonymous user 127.0.0.1.: api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvlimit=5&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment&rvexcludeuser=127.0.0.1 [open in sandbox]
Get first 5 revisions of the Main Page that were made by the user MediaWiki default.: api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Main%20Page&rvlimit=5&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment&rvuser=MediaWiki%20default [open in sandbox]

prop=stashimageinfo (sii)

(main | query | stashimageinfo)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns file information for stashed files.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Stashimageinfo

Parameters:

siifilekey

Key that identifies a previous upload that was stashed temporarily.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

siisessionkey

Deprecated.

Alias for siifilekey, for backward compatibility.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

siiprop

Which file information to get:

timestamp: Adds timestamp for the uploaded version.
canonicaltitle: Adds the canonical title of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
url: Gives URL to the file and the description page. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
size: Adds the size of the file in bytes and the height, width and page count (if applicable).
dimensions: Alias for size.
sha1: Adds SHA-1 hash for the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
mime: Adds MIME type of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
thumbmime: Adds MIME type of the image thumbnail (requires url and param siiurlwidth). If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
metadata: Lists Exif metadata for the version of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
commonmetadata: Lists file format generic metadata for the version of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
extmetadata: Lists formatted metadata combined from multiple sources. Results are HTML formatted. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
bitdepth: Adds the bit depth of the version. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
badfile: Adds whether the file is on the MediaWiki:Bad image list

Values (separate with | or alternative): badfile, bitdepth, canonicaltitle, commonmetadata, dimensions, extmetadata, metadata, mime, sha1, size, thumbmime, timestamp, url

Default: timestamp|url

siiurlwidth

If siiprop=url is set, a URL to an image scaled to this width will be returned. For performance reasons if this option is used, no more than 50 scaled images will be returned.

Type: integer

Default: -1

siiurlheight

Similar to siiurlwidth.

Type: integer

Default: -1

siiurlparam

A handler specific parameter string. For example, PDFs might use page15-100px. siiurlwidth must be used and be consistent with siiurlparam.

Default: (empty)

Examples:

Returns information for a stashed file.: api.php?action=query&prop=stashimageinfo&siifilekey=124sd34rsdf567 [open in sandbox]
Returns thumbnails for two stashed files.: api.php?action=query&prop=stashimageinfo&siifilekey=b34edoe3|bceffd4&siiurlwidth=120&siiprop=url [open in sandbox]

prop=templates (tl)

(main | query | templates)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns all pages transcluded on the given pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Templates

Parameters:

tlnamespace: Show templates in these namespaces only.; Values (separate with | or alternative): -1, -2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; To specify all values, use *.
tllimit: How many templates to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
tlcontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
tltemplates: Only list these templates. Useful for checking whether a certain page uses a certain template.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
tldir: The direction in which to list.; One of the following values: ascending, descending; Default: ascending

Examples:

Get the templates used on the page Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=templates&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
Get information about the template pages used on Main Page.: api.php?action=query&generator=templates&titles=Main%20Page&prop=info [open in sandbox]
Get pages in the User and Template namespaces that are transcluded on the page Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=templates&titles=Main%20Page&tlnamespace=2|10 [open in sandbox]

prop=transcludedin (ti)

(main | query | transcludedin)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Find all pages that transclude the given pages.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Transcludedin

Parameters:

tiprop

Which properties to get:

pageid: Page ID of each page.
title: Title of each page.
redirect: Flag if the page is a redirect.

Values (separate with | or alternative): pageid, redirect, title

Default: pageid|title|redirect

tinamespace

Only include pages in these namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

tishow

Show only items that meet these criteria:

redirect: Only show redirects.
!redirect: Only show non-redirects.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !redirect, redirect

tilimit

How many to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

ticontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

Get a list of pages transcluding Main Page.: api.php?action=query&prop=transcludedin&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
Get information about pages transcluding Main Page.: api.php?action=query&generator=transcludedin&titles=Main%20Page&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=allcategories (ac)

(main | query | allcategories)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Enumerate all categories.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Allcategories

Parameters:

acfrom

The category to start enumerating from.

accontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

acto

The category to stop enumerating at.

acprefix

Search for all category titles that begin with this value.

acdir

Direction to sort in.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

acmin

Only return categories with at least this many members.

Type: integer

acmax

Only return categories with at most this many members.

Type: integer

aclimit

How many categories to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

acprop

Which properties to get:

size: Adds number of pages in the category.
hidden: Tags categories that are hidden with __HIDDENCAT__.

Values (separate with | or alternative): hidden, size

Default: (empty)

Examples:

List categories with information on the number of pages in each.: api.php?action=query&list=allcategories&acprop=size [open in sandbox]
Retrieve info about the category page itself for categories beginning List.: api.php?action=query&generator=allcategories&gacprefix=List&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=alldeletedrevisions (adr)

(main | query | alldeletedrevisions)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all deleted revisions by a user or in a namespace.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Alldeletedrevisions

Parameters:

adrprop

Which properties to get for each revision:

ids: The ID of the revision.
flags: Revision flags (minor).
timestamp: The timestamp of the revision.
user: User that made the revision. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
userid: User ID of the revision creator. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
size: Length (bytes) of the revision.
slotsize: Length (bytes) of each revision slot.
sha1: SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision. If the content has been revision deleted, a sha1hidden property will be returned.
slotsha1: SHA-1 (base 16) of each revision slot. If the content has been revision deleted, a sha1hidden property will be returned.
contentmodel: Content model ID of each revision slot.
comment: Comment by the user for the revision. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: Parsed comment by the user for the revision. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
content: Content of each revision slot. If the content has been revision deleted, a texthidden property will be returned.
tags: Tags for the revision.
roles: List content slot roles that exist in the revision.
parsetree: Deprecated. Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model wikitext).

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, content, contentmodel, flags, ids, parsedcomment, roles, sha1, size, slotsha1, slotsize, tags, timestamp, user, userid, parsetree

Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user

adrslots

Which revision slots to return data for, when slot-related properties are included in adrprops. If omitted, data from the main slot will be returned in a backwards-compatible format.

Values (separate with | or alternative): main

To specify all values, use *.

adrlimit

Limit how many revisions will be returned.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

adrexpandtemplates

Deprecated.

Use action=expandtemplates instead. Expand templates in revision content (requires adrprop=content).

Type: boolean (details)

adrgeneratexml

Deprecated.

Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires adrprop=content).

Type: boolean (details)

adrparse

Deprecated.

Use action=parse instead. Parse revision content (requires adrprop=content). For performance reasons, if this option is used, adrlimit is enforced to 1.

Type: boolean (details)

adrsection

Only retrieve the content of this section number.

adrdiffto

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.

adrdifftotext

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Text to diff each revision to. Only diffs a limited number of revisions. Overrides adrdiffto. If adrsection is set, only that section will be diffed against this text.

adrdifftotextpst

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Perform a pre-save transform on the text before diffing it. Only valid when used with adrdifftotext.

Type: boolean (details)

adrcontentformat

Deprecated.

Serialization format used for adrdifftotext and expected for output of content.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

adruser

Only list revisions by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

adrnamespace

Only list pages in this namespace.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

adrstart

The timestamp to start enumerating from.

May only be used with adruser.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

adrend

The timestamp to stop enumerating at.

May only be used with adruser.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

adrdir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: adrstart has to be before adrend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: adrstart has to be later than adrend.

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

adrfrom

Start listing at this title.

Cannot be used with adruser.

adrto

Stop listing at this title.

Cannot be used with adruser.

adrprefix

Search for all page titles that begin with this value.

Cannot be used with adruser.

adrexcludeuser

Don't list revisions by this user.

Cannot be used with adruser.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

adrtag

Only list revisions tagged with this tag.

adrcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

adrgeneratetitles

When being used as a generator, generate titles rather than revision IDs.

Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

List the last 50 deleted contributions by user Example.: api.php?action=query&list=alldeletedrevisions&adruser=Example&adrlimit=50 [open in sandbox]
List the first 50 deleted revisions in the main namespace.: api.php?action=query&list=alldeletedrevisions&adrdir=newer&adrnamespace=0&adrlimit=50 [open in sandbox]

list=allfileusages (af)

(main | query | allfileusages)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all file usages, including non-existing.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Allfileusages

Parameters:

afcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

affrom

The title of the file to start enumerating from.

afto

The title of the file to stop enumerating at.

afprefix

Search for all file titles that begin with this value.

afunique

Only show distinct file titles. Cannot be used with afprop=ids. When used as a generator, yields target pages instead of source pages.

Type: boolean (details)

afprop

Which pieces of information to include:

ids: Adds the page IDs of the using pages (cannot be used with afunique).
title: Adds the title of the file.

Values (separate with | or alternative): ids, title

Default: title

aflimit

How many total items to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

afdir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

Examples:

List file titles, including missing ones, with page IDs they are from, starting at B.: api.php?action=query&list=allfileusages&affrom=B&afprop=ids|title [open in sandbox]
List unique file titles.: api.php?action=query&list=allfileusages&afunique=&affrom=B [open in sandbox]
Gets all file titles, marking the missing ones.: api.php?action=query&generator=allfileusages&gafunique=&gaffrom=B [open in sandbox]
Gets pages containing the files.: api.php?action=query&generator=allfileusages&gaffrom=B [open in sandbox]

list=allimages (ai)

(main | query | allimages)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Enumerate all images sequentially.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Allimages

Parameters:

aisort

Property to sort by.

One of the following values: name, timestamp

Default: name

aidir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending, newer, older

Default: ascending

aifrom

The image title to start enumerating from. Can only be used with aisort=name.

aito

The image title to stop enumerating at. Can only be used with aisort=name.

aicontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

aistart

The timestamp to start enumerating from. Can only be used with aisort=timestamp.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

aiend

The timestamp to end enumerating. Can only be used with aisort=timestamp.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

aiprop

Which file information to get:

timestamp: Adds timestamp for the uploaded version.
user: Adds the user who uploaded each file version. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
userid: Add the ID of the user that uploaded each file version. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
comment: Comment on the version. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: Parse the comment on the version. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
canonicaltitle: Adds the canonical title of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
url: Gives URL to the file and the description page. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
size: Adds the size of the file in bytes and the height, width and page count (if applicable).
dimensions: Alias for size.
sha1: Adds SHA-1 hash for the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
mime: Adds MIME type of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
mediatype: Adds the media type of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
metadata: Lists Exif metadata for the version of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
commonmetadata: Lists file format generic metadata for the version of the file. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
extmetadata: Lists formatted metadata combined from multiple sources. Results are HTML formatted. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
bitdepth: Adds the bit depth of the version. If the file has been revision deleted, a filehidden property will be returned.
badfile: Adds whether the file is on the MediaWiki:Bad image list

Values (separate with | or alternative): badfile, bitdepth, canonicaltitle, comment, commonmetadata, dimensions, extmetadata, mediatype, metadata, mime, parsedcomment, sha1, size, timestamp, url, user, userid

Default: timestamp|url

aiprefix

Search for all image titles that begin with this value. Can only be used with aisort=name.

aiminsize

Limit to images with at least this many bytes.

Type: integer

aimaxsize

Limit to images with at most this many bytes.

Type: integer

aisha1

SHA1 hash of image. Overrides aisha1base36.

aisha1base36

SHA1 hash of image in base 36 (used in MediaWiki).

aiuser

Only return files uploaded by this user. Can only be used with aisort=timestamp. Cannot be used together with aifilterbots.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

aifilterbots

How to filter files uploaded by bots. Can only be used with aisort=timestamp. Cannot be used together with aiuser.

One of the following values: all, bots, nobots

Default: all

aimime

What MIME types to search for, e.g. image/jpeg.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

ailimit

How many images in total to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

Examples:

Show a list of files starting at the letter B.: api.php?action=query&list=allimages&aifrom=B [open in sandbox]
Show a list of recently uploaded files, similar to Special:NewFiles.: api.php?action=query&list=allimages&aiprop=user|timestamp|url&aisort=timestamp&aidir=older [open in sandbox]
Show a list of files with MIME type image/png or image/gif: api.php?action=query&list=allimages&aimime=image/png|image/gif [open in sandbox]
Show info about 4 files starting at the letter T.: api.php?action=query&generator=allimages&gailimit=4&gaifrom=T&prop=imageinfo [open in sandbox]

list=alllinks (al)

(main | query | alllinks)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Enumerate all links that point to a given namespace.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Alllinks

Parameters:

alcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

alfrom

The title of the link to start enumerating from.

alto

The title of the link to stop enumerating at.

alprefix

Search for all linked titles that begin with this value.

alunique

Only show distinct linked titles. Cannot be used with alprop=ids. When used as a generator, yields target pages instead of source pages.

Type: boolean (details)

alprop

Which pieces of information to include:

ids: Adds the page ID of the linking page (cannot be used with alunique).
title: Adds the title of the link.

Values (separate with | or alternative): ids, title

Default: title

alnamespace

The namespace to enumerate.

One of the following values: -1, -2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Default: 0

allimit

How many total items to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

aldir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

Examples:

List linked titles, including missing ones, with page IDs they are from, starting at B.: api.php?action=query&list=alllinks&alfrom=B&alprop=ids|title [open in sandbox]
List unique linked titles.: api.php?action=query&list=alllinks&alunique=&alfrom=B [open in sandbox]
Gets all linked titles, marking the missing ones.: api.php?action=query&generator=alllinks&galunique=&galfrom=B [open in sandbox]
Gets pages containing the links.: api.php?action=query&generator=alllinks&galfrom=B [open in sandbox]

list=allpages (ap)

(main | query | allpages)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Allpages

Parameters:

apfrom

The page title to start enumerating from.

apcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

apto

The page title to stop enumerating at.

apprefix

Search for all page titles that begin with this value.

apnamespace

The namespace to enumerate.

One of the following values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Default: 0

apfilterredir

Which pages to list.

One of the following values: all, nonredirects, redirects

Default: all

apminsize

Limit to pages with at least this many bytes.

Type: integer

apmaxsize

Limit to pages with at most this many bytes.

Type: integer

apprtype

Limit to protected pages only.

Values (separate with | or alternative): edit, move, upload

apprlevel

Filter protections based on protection level (must be used with apprtype= parameter).

Values (separate with | or alternative): Can be empty, or autoconfirmed, sysop

apprfiltercascade

Filter protections based on cascadingness (ignored when apprtype isn't set).

One of the following values: all, cascading, noncascading

Default: all

aplimit

How many total pages to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

apdir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

apfilterlanglinks

Filter based on whether a page has langlinks. Note that this may not consider langlinks added by extensions.

One of the following values: all, withlanglinks, withoutlanglinks

Default: all

apprexpiry

Which protection expiry to filter the page on:

indefinite: Get only pages with indefinite protection expiry.
definite: Get only pages with a definite (specific) protection expiry.
all: Get pages with any protections expiry.

One of the following values: all, definite, indefinite

Default: all

Examples:

Show a list of pages starting at the letter B.: api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apfrom=B [open in sandbox]
Show info about 4 pages starting at the letter T.: api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=4&gapfrom=T&prop=info [open in sandbox]
Show content of first 2 non-redirect pages beginning at Re.: api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=2&gapfilterredir=nonredirects&gapfrom=Re&prop=revisions&rvprop=content [open in sandbox]

list=allredirects (ar)

(main | query | allredirects)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all redirects to a namespace.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Allredirects

Parameters:

arcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

arfrom

The title of the redirect to start enumerating from.

arto

The title of the redirect to stop enumerating at.

arprefix

Search for all target pages that begin with this value.

arunique

Only show distinct target pages. Cannot be used with arprop=ids|fragment|interwiki. When used as a generator, yields target pages instead of source pages.

Type: boolean (details)

arprop

Which pieces of information to include:

ids: Adds the page ID of the redirecting page (cannot be used with arunique).
title: Adds the title of the redirect.
fragment: Adds the fragment from the redirect, if any (cannot be used with arunique).
interwiki: Adds the interwiki prefix from the redirect, if any (cannot be used with arunique).

Values (separate with | or alternative): fragment, ids, interwiki, title

Default: title

arnamespace

The namespace to enumerate.

One of the following values: -1, -2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Default: 0

arlimit

How many total items to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

ardir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

Examples:

List target pages, including missing ones, with page IDs they are from, starting at B.: api.php?action=query&list=allredirects&arfrom=B&arprop=ids|title [open in sandbox]
List unique target pages.: api.php?action=query&list=allredirects&arunique=&arfrom=B [open in sandbox]
Gets all target pages, marking the missing ones.: api.php?action=query&generator=allredirects&garunique=&garfrom=B [open in sandbox]
Gets pages containing the redirects.: api.php?action=query&generator=allredirects&garfrom=B [open in sandbox]

list=allrevisions (arv)

(main | query | allrevisions)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all revisions.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Allrevisions

Parameters:

arvprop

Which properties to get for each revision:

ids: The ID of the revision.
flags: Revision flags (minor).
timestamp: The timestamp of the revision.
user: User that made the revision. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
userid: User ID of the revision creator. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
size: Length (bytes) of the revision.
slotsize: Length (bytes) of each revision slot.
sha1: SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision. If the content has been revision deleted, a sha1hidden property will be returned.
slotsha1: SHA-1 (base 16) of each revision slot. If the content has been revision deleted, a sha1hidden property will be returned.
contentmodel: Content model ID of each revision slot.
comment: Comment by the user for the revision. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: Parsed comment by the user for the revision. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
content: Content of each revision slot. If the content has been revision deleted, a texthidden property will be returned.
tags: Tags for the revision.
roles: List content slot roles that exist in the revision.
parsetree: Deprecated. Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model wikitext).

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, content, contentmodel, flags, ids, parsedcomment, roles, sha1, size, slotsha1, slotsize, tags, timestamp, user, userid, parsetree

Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user

arvslots

Which revision slots to return data for, when slot-related properties are included in arvprops. If omitted, data from the main slot will be returned in a backwards-compatible format.

Values (separate with | or alternative): main

To specify all values, use *.

arvlimit

Limit how many revisions will be returned.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

arvexpandtemplates

Deprecated.

Use action=expandtemplates instead. Expand templates in revision content (requires arvprop=content).

Type: boolean (details)

arvgeneratexml

Deprecated.

Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires arvprop=content).

Type: boolean (details)

arvparse

Deprecated.

Use action=parse instead. Parse revision content (requires arvprop=content). For performance reasons, if this option is used, arvlimit is enforced to 1.

Type: boolean (details)

arvsection

Only retrieve the content of this section number.

arvdiffto

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.

arvdifftotext

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Text to diff each revision to. Only diffs a limited number of revisions. Overrides arvdiffto. If arvsection is set, only that section will be diffed against this text.

arvdifftotextpst

Deprecated.

Use action=compare instead. Perform a pre-save transform on the text before diffing it. Only valid when used with arvdifftotext.

Type: boolean (details)

arvcontentformat

Deprecated.

Serialization format used for arvdifftotext and expected for output of content.

One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown

arvuser

Only list revisions by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

arvnamespace

Only list pages in this namespace.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

arvstart

The timestamp to start enumerating from.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

arvend

The timestamp to stop enumerating at.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

arvdir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: arvstart has to be before arvend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: arvstart has to be later than arvend.

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

arvexcludeuser

Don't list revisions by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

arvcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

arvgeneratetitles

When being used as a generator, generate titles rather than revision IDs.

Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

List the last 50 contributions by user Example.: api.php?action=query&list=allrevisions&arvuser=Example&arvlimit=50 [open in sandbox]
List the first 50 revisions in any namespace.: api.php?action=query&list=allrevisions&arvdir=newer&arvlimit=50 [open in sandbox]

list=alltransclusions (at)

(main | query | alltransclusions)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all transclusions (pages embedded using {{x}}), including non-existing.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Alltransclusions

Parameters:

atcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

atfrom

The title of the transclusion to start enumerating from.

atto

The title of the transclusion to stop enumerating at.

atprefix

Search for all transcluded titles that begin with this value.

atunique

Only show distinct transcluded titles. Cannot be used with atprop=ids. When used as a generator, yields target pages instead of source pages.

Type: boolean (details)

atprop

Which pieces of information to include:

ids: Adds the page ID of the transcluding page (cannot be used with atunique).
title: Adds the title of the transclusion.

Values (separate with | or alternative): ids, title

Default: title

atnamespace

The namespace to enumerate.

One of the following values: -1, -2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Default: 10

atlimit

How many total items to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

atdir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

Examples:

List transcluded titles, including missing ones, with page IDs they are from, starting at B.: api.php?action=query&list=alltransclusions&atfrom=B&atprop=ids|title [open in sandbox]
List unique transcluded titles.: api.php?action=query&list=alltransclusions&atunique=&atfrom=B [open in sandbox]
Gets all transcluded titles, marking the missing ones.: api.php?action=query&generator=alltransclusions&gatunique=&gatfrom=B [open in sandbox]
Gets pages containing the transclusions.: api.php?action=query&generator=alltransclusions&gatfrom=B [open in sandbox]

list=allusers (au)

(main | query | allusers)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Enumerate all registered users.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Allusers

Parameters:

aufrom

The user name to start enumerating from.

auto

The user name to stop enumerating at.

auprefix

Search for all users that begin with this value.

audir

Direction to sort in.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

augroup

Only include users in the given groups.

Values (separate with | or alternative): bot, bureaucrat, interface-admin, suppress, sysop

auexcludegroup

Exclude users in the given groups.

Values (separate with | or alternative): bot, bureaucrat, interface-admin, suppress, sysop

aurights

Only include users with the given rights. Does not include rights granted by implicit or auto-promoted groups like *, user, or autoconfirmed.

Values (separate with | or alternative): apihighlimits, applychangetags, autoconfirmed, autocreateaccount, autopatrol, bigdelete, block, blockemail, bot, browsearchive, changetags, createaccount, createpage, createtalk, delete, delete-redirect, deletechangetags, deletedhistory, deletedtext, deletelogentry, deleterevision, edit, editcontentmodel, editinterface, editmyoptions, editmyprivateinfo, editmyusercss, editmyuserjs, editmyuserjson, editmyuserjsredirect, editmywatchlist, editprotected, editsemiprotected, editsitecss, editsitejs, editsitejson, editusercss, edituserjs, edituserjson, hideuser, import, importupload, ipblock-exempt, managechangetags, markbotedits, mergehistory, minoredit, move, move-categorypages, move-rootuserpages, move-subpages, movefile, nominornewtalk, noratelimit, override-export-depth, pagelang, patrol, patrolmarks, protect, purge, read, reupload, reupload-own, reupload-shared, rollback, sendemail, siteadmin, skipcaptcha, suppressionlog, suppressredirect, suppressrevision, unblockself, undelete, unwatchedpages, upload, upload_by_url, userrights, userrights-interwiki, viewmyprivateinfo, viewmywatchlist, viewsuppressed, writeapi

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

auprop

Which pieces of information to include:

blockinfo: Adds the information about a current block on the user.
groups: Lists groups that the user is in. This uses more server resources and may return fewer results than the limit.
implicitgroups: Lists all the groups the user is automatically in.
rights: Lists rights that the user has.
editcount: Adds the edit count of the user.
registration: Adds the timestamp of when the user registered if available (may be blank).
centralids: Adds the central IDs and attachment status for the user.

Values (separate with | or alternative): blockinfo, centralids, editcount, groups, implicitgroups, registration, rights

aulimit

How many total user names to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

auwitheditsonly

Only list users who have made edits.

Type: boolean (details)

auactiveusers

Only list users active in the last 30 days.

Type: boolean (details)

auattachedwiki

With auprop=centralids, also indicate whether the user is attached with the wiki identified by this ID.

Example:

List users starting at Y.: api.php?action=query&list=allusers&aufrom=Y [open in sandbox]

list=backlinks (bl)

(main | query | backlinks)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Find all pages that link to the given page.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Backlinks

Parameters:

bltitle: Title to search. Cannot be used together with blpageid.
blpageid: Page ID to search. Cannot be used together with bltitle.; Type: integer
blcontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
blnamespace: The namespace to enumerate.; Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; To specify all values, use *.
bldir: The direction in which to list.; One of the following values: ascending, descending; Default: ascending
blfilterredir: How to filter for redirects. If set to nonredirects when blredirect is enabled, this is only applied to the second level.; One of the following values: all, nonredirects, redirects; Default: all
bllimit: How many total pages to return. If blredirect is enabled, the limit applies to each level separately (which means up to 2 * bllimit results may be returned).; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
blredirect: If linking page is a redirect, find all pages that link to that redirect as well. Maximum limit is halved.; Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Show links to Main page.: api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
Get information about pages linking to Main page.: api.php?action=query&generator=backlinks&gbltitle=Main%20Page&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=blocks (bk)

(main | query | blocks)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all blocked users and IP addresses.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Blocks

Parameters:

bkstart

The timestamp to start enumerating from.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

bkend

The timestamp to stop enumerating at.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

bkdir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: bkstart has to be before bkend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: bkstart has to be later than bkend.

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

bkids

List of block IDs to list (optional).

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

bkusers

List of users to search for (optional).

Type: list of users, by any of user name, IP and IP range

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

bkip

Get all blocks applying to this IP address or CIDR range, including range blocks. Cannot be used together with bkusers. CIDR ranges broader than IPv4/16 or IPv6/19 are not accepted.

bklimit

The maximum number of blocks to list.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

bkprop

Which properties to get:

id: Adds the ID of the block.
user: Adds the username of the blocked user.
userid: Adds the user ID of the blocked user.
by: Adds the username of the blocking user.
byid: Adds the user ID of the blocking user.
timestamp: Adds the timestamp of when the block was given.
expiry: Adds the timestamp of when the block expires.
reason: Adds the reason given for the block.
range: Adds the range of IP addresses affected by the block.
flags: Tags the ban with (autoblock, anononly, etc.).
restrictions: Adds the partial block restrictions if the block is not sitewide.

Values (separate with | or alternative): by, byid, expiry, flags, id, range, reason, restrictions, timestamp, user, userid

bkshow

Show only items that meet these criteria. For example, to see only indefinite blocks on IP addresses, set bkshow=ip|!temp.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !account, !ip, !range, !temp, account, ip, range, temp

bkcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

List blocks.: api.php?action=query&list=blocks [open in sandbox]
List blocks of users Alice and Bob.: api.php?action=query&list=blocks&bkusers=Alice|Bob [open in sandbox]

list=categorymembers (cm)

(main | query | categorymembers)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all pages in a given category.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Categorymembers

Parameters:

cmtitle

Which category to enumerate (required). Must include the Category: prefix. Cannot be used together with cmpageid.

cmpageid

Page ID of the category to enumerate. Cannot be used together with cmtitle.

Type: integer

cmprop

Which pieces of information to include:

ids: Adds the page ID.
title: Adds the title and namespace ID of the page.
sortkey: Adds the sortkey used for sorting in the category (hexadecimal string).
sortkeyprefix: Adds the sortkey prefix used for sorting in the category (human-readable part of the sortkey).
type: Adds the type that the page has been categorised as (page, subcat or file).
timestamp: Adds the timestamp of when the page was included.

Values (separate with | or alternative): ids, sortkey, sortkeyprefix, timestamp, title, type

Default: ids|title

cmnamespace

Only include pages in these namespaces. Note that cmtype=subcat or cmtype=file may be used instead of cmnamespace=14 or 6.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

cmtype

Which type of category members to include. Ignored when cmsort=timestamp is set.

Values (separate with | or alternative): file, page, subcat

Default: page|subcat|file

cmcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

cmlimit

The maximum number of pages to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

cmsort

Property to sort by.

One of the following values: sortkey, timestamp

Default: sortkey

cmdir

In which direction to sort.

One of the following values: asc, ascending, desc, descending, newer, older

Default: ascending

cmstart

Timestamp to start listing from. Can only be used with cmsort=timestamp.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

cmend

Timestamp to end listing at. Can only be used with cmsort=timestamp.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

cmstarthexsortkey

Sortkey to start listing from, as returned by cmprop=sortkey. Can only be used with cmsort=sortkey.

cmendhexsortkey

Sortkey to end listing at, as returned by cmprop=sortkey. Can only be used with cmsort=sortkey.

cmstartsortkeyprefix

Sortkey prefix to start listing from. Can only be used with cmsort=sortkey. Overrides cmstarthexsortkey.

cmendsortkeyprefix

Sortkey prefix to end listing before (not at; if this value occurs it will not be included!). Can only be used with cmsort=sortkey. Overrides cmendhexsortkey.

cmstartsortkey

Deprecated.

Use cmstarthexsortkey instead.

cmendsortkey

Deprecated.

Use cmendhexsortkey instead.

Examples:

Get first 10 pages in Category:Physics.: api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Physics [open in sandbox]
Get page info about first 10 pages in Category:Physics.: api.php?action=query&generator=categorymembers&gcmtitle=Category:Physics&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=deletedrevs (dr)

(main | query | deletedrevs)

This module is deprecated.
This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List deleted revisions.

Operates in three modes:

List deleted revisions for the given titles, sorted by timestamp.
List deleted contributions for the given user, sorted by timestamp (no titles specified).
List all deleted revisions in the given namespace, sorted by title and timestamp (no titles specified, druser not set).

Certain parameters only apply to some modes and are ignored in others.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Deletedrevs

Parameters:

drstart

The timestamp to start enumerating from.

Modes: 1, 2

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

drend

The timestamp to stop enumerating at.

Modes: 1, 2

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

drdir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: drstart has to be before drend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: drstart has to be later than drend.

Modes: 1, 3

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

drfrom

Start listing at this title.

Mode: 3

drto

Stop listing at this title.

Mode: 3

drprefix

Search for all page titles that begin with this value.

Mode: 3

drunique

List only one revision for each page.

Mode: 3

Type: boolean (details)

drnamespace

Only list pages in this namespace.

Mode: 3

One of the following values: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Default: 0

drtag

Only list revisions tagged with this tag.

druser

Only list revisions by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

drexcludeuser

Don't list revisions by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

drprop

Which properties to get:

revid: Adds the revision ID of the deleted revision.
parentid: Adds the revision ID of the previous revision to the page.
user: Adds the user who made the revision.
userid: Adds the ID of the user who made the revision.
comment: Adds the comment of the revision.
parsedcomment: Adds the parsed comment of the revision.
minor: Tags if the revision is minor.
len: Adds the length (bytes) of the revision.
sha1: Adds the SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision.
content: Adds the content of the revision.
token: Deprecated. Gives the edit token.
tags: Tags for the revision.

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, content, len, minor, parentid, parsedcomment, revid, sha1, tags, token, user, userid

Default: user|comment

drlimit

The maximum amount of revisions to list.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

drcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

List the last deleted revisions of the pages Main Page and Talk:Main Page, with content (mode 1).: api.php?action=query&list=deletedrevs&titles=Main%20Page|Talk:Main%20Page&drprop=user|comment|content [open in sandbox]
List the last 50 deleted contributions by Bob (mode 2).: api.php?action=query&list=deletedrevs&druser=Bob&drlimit=50 [open in sandbox]
List the first 50 deleted revisions in the main namespace (mode 3).: api.php?action=query&list=deletedrevs&drdir=newer&drlimit=50 [open in sandbox]
List the first 50 deleted pages in the Talk namespace (mode 3).: api.php?action=query&list=deletedrevs&drdir=newer&drlimit=50&drnamespace=1&drunique= [open in sandbox]

list=embeddedin (ei)

(main | query | embeddedin)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Find all pages that embed (transclude) the given title.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Embeddedin

Parameters:

eititle: Title to search. Cannot be used together with eipageid.
eipageid: Page ID to search. Cannot be used together with eititle.; Type: integer
eicontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
einamespace: The namespace to enumerate.; Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; To specify all values, use *.
eidir: The direction in which to list.; One of the following values: ascending, descending; Default: ascending
eifilterredir: How to filter for redirects.; One of the following values: all, nonredirects, redirects; Default: all
eilimit: How many total pages to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10

Examples:

Show pages transcluding Template:Stub.: api.php?action=query&list=embeddedin&eititle=Template:Stub [open in sandbox]
Get information about pages transcluding Template:Stub.: api.php?action=query&generator=embeddedin&geititle=Template:Stub&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=exturlusage (eu)

(main | query | exturlusage)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Exturlusage

Parameters:

euprop

Which pieces of information to include:

ids: Adds the ID of page.
title: Adds the title and namespace ID of the page.
url: Adds the URL used in the page.

Values (separate with | or alternative): ids, title, url

Default: ids|title|url

eucontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

euprotocol

Protocol of the URL. If empty and euquery is set, the protocol is http. Leave both this and euquery empty to list all external links.

One of the following values: Can be empty, or bitcoin, ftp, ftps, geo, git, gopher, http, https, irc, ircs, magnet, mailto, mms, news, nntp, redis, sftp, sip, sips, sms, ssh, svn, tel, telnet, urn, worldwind, xmpp

Default: (empty)

euquery

Search string without protocol. See Special:LinkSearch. Leave empty to list all external links.

eunamespace

The page namespaces to enumerate.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

eulimit

How many pages to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

euexpandurl

Expand protocol-relative URLs with the canonical protocol.

Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Show pages linking to https://www.mediawiki.org.: api.php?action=query&list=exturlusage&euquery=www.mediawiki.org [open in sandbox]

list=filearchive (fa)

(main | query | filearchive)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Enumerate all deleted files sequentially.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Filearchive

Parameters:

fafrom

The image title to start enumerating from.

fato

The image title to stop enumerating at.

faprefix

Search for all image titles that begin with this value.

fadir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

fasha1

SHA1 hash of image. Overrides fasha1base36.

fasha1base36

SHA1 hash of image in base 36 (used in MediaWiki).

faprop

Which image information to get:

sha1: Adds SHA-1 hash for the image.
timestamp: Adds timestamp for the uploaded version.
user: Adds user who uploaded the image version.
size: Adds the size of the image in bytes and the height, width and page count (if applicable).
dimensions: Alias for size.
description: Adds description of the image version.
parseddescription: Parse the description of the version.
mime: Adds MIME of the image.
mediatype: Adds the media type of the image.
metadata: Lists Exif metadata for the version of the image.
bitdepth: Adds the bit depth of the version.
archivename: Adds the filename of the archive version for non-latest versions.

Values (separate with | or alternative): archivename, bitdepth, description, dimensions, mediatype, metadata, mime, parseddescription, sha1, size, timestamp, user

Default: timestamp

falimit

How many images to return in total.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

facontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Example:

Show a list of all deleted files.: api.php?action=query&list=filearchive [open in sandbox]

list=imageusage (iu)

(main | query | imageusage)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Find all pages that use the given image title.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Imageusage

Parameters:

iutitle: Title to search. Cannot be used together with iupageid.
iupageid: Page ID to search. Cannot be used together with iutitle.; Type: integer
iucontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
iunamespace: The namespace to enumerate.; Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; To specify all values, use *.
iudir: The direction in which to list.; One of the following values: ascending, descending; Default: ascending
iufilterredir: How to filter for redirects. If set to nonredirects when iuredirect is enabled, this is only applied to the second level.; One of the following values: all, nonredirects, redirects; Default: all
iulimit: How many total pages to return. If iuredirect is enabled, the limit applies to each level separately (which means up to 2 * iulimit results may be returned).; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
iuredirect: If linking page is a redirect, find all pages that link to that redirect as well. Maximum limit is halved.; Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Show pages using File:Albert Einstein Head.jpg.: api.php?action=query&list=imageusage&iutitle=File:Albert%20Einstein%20Head.jpg [open in sandbox]
Get information about pages using File:Albert Einstein Head.jpg.: api.php?action=query&generator=imageusage&giutitle=File:Albert%20Einstein%20Head.jpg&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=iwbacklinks (iwbl)

(main | query | iwbacklinks)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Find all pages that link to the given interwiki link.

Can be used to find all links with a prefix, or all links to a title (with a given prefix). Using neither parameter is effectively "all interwiki links".

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Iwbacklinks

Parameters:

iwblprefix

Prefix for the interwiki.

iwbltitle

Interwiki link to search for. Must be used with iwblblprefix.

iwblcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

iwbllimit

How many total pages to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

iwblprop

Which properties to get:

iwprefix: Adds the prefix of the interwiki.
iwtitle: Adds the title of the interwiki.

Values (separate with | or alternative): iwprefix, iwtitle

Default: (empty)

iwbldir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

Examples:

Get pages linking to wikibooks:Test.: api.php?action=query&list=iwbacklinks&iwbltitle=Test&iwblprefix=wikibooks [open in sandbox]
Get information about pages linking to wikibooks:Test.: api.php?action=query&generator=iwbacklinks&giwbltitle=Test&giwblprefix=wikibooks&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=langbacklinks (lbl)

(main | query | langbacklinks)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Find all pages that link to the given language link.

Can be used to find all links with a language code, or all links to a title (with a given language). Using neither parameter is effectively "all language links".

Note that this may not consider language links added by extensions.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Langbacklinks

Parameters:

lbllang

Language for the language link.

lbltitle

Language link to search for. Must be used with lbllang.

lblcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

lbllimit

How many total pages to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

lblprop

Which properties to get:

lllang: Adds the language code of the language link.
lltitle: Adds the title of the language link.

Values (separate with | or alternative): lllang, lltitle

Default: (empty)

lbldir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

Examples:

Get pages linking to fr:Test.: api.php?action=query&list=langbacklinks&lbltitle=Test&lbllang=fr [open in sandbox]
Get information about pages linking to fr:Test.: api.php?action=query&generator=langbacklinks&glbltitle=Test&glbllang=fr&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=logevents (le)

(main | query | logevents)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get events from logs.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Logevents

Parameters:

leprop

Which properties to get:

ids: Adds the ID of the log event.
title: Adds the title of the page for the log event.
type: Adds the type of log event.
user: Adds the user responsible for the log event.
userid: Adds the user ID who was responsible for the log event.
timestamp: Adds the timestamp for the log event.
comment: Adds the comment of the log event.
parsedcomment: Adds the parsed comment of the log event.
details: Lists additional details about the log event.
tags: Lists tags for the log event.

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, details, ids, parsedcomment, tags, timestamp, title, type, user, userid

letype

Filter log entries to only this type.

One of the following values: Can be empty, or block, contentmodel, create, delete, import, managetags, merge, move, newusers, patrol, protect, rights, suppress, tag, upload

leaction

Filter log actions to only this action. Overrides letype. In the list of possible values, values with the asterisk wildcard such as action/* can have different strings after the slash (/).

One of the following values: block/block, block/reblock, block/unblock, contentmodel/change, contentmodel/new, create/create, delete/delete, delete/delete_redir, delete/delete_redir2, delete/event, delete/restore, delete/revision, import/interwiki, import/upload, managetags/activate, managetags/create, managetags/deactivate, managetags/delete, merge/merge, move/move, move/move_redir, newusers/autocreate, newusers/byemail, newusers/create, newusers/create2, newusers/newusers, patrol/autopatrol, patrol/patrol, protect/modify, protect/move_prot, protect/protect, protect/unprotect, rights/autopromote, rights/rights, suppress/block, suppress/delete, suppress/event, suppress/reblock, suppress/revision, tag/update, upload/overwrite, upload/revert, upload/upload

lestart

The timestamp to start enumerating from.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

leend

The timestamp to end enumerating.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

ledir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: lestart has to be before leend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: lestart has to be later than leend.

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

leuser

Filter entries to those made by the given user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

letitle

Filter entries to those related to a page.

lenamespace

Filter entries to those in the given namespace.

One of the following values: -1, -2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

leprefix

Filter entries that start with this prefix.

letag

Only list event entries tagged with this tag.

lelimit

How many total event entries to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

lecontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Example:

List recent log events.: api.php?action=query&list=logevents [open in sandbox]

list=mystashedfiles (msf)

(main | query | mystashedfiles)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get a list of files in the current user's upload stash.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:mystashedfiles

Parameters:

msfprop

Which properties to fetch for the files.

size: Fetch the file size and image dimensions.
type: Fetch the file's MIME type and media type.

Values (separate with | or alternative): size, type

Default: (empty)

msflimit

How many files to get.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

msfcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Example:

Get the filekey, file size, and pixel size of files in the current user's upload stash.: api.php?action=query&list=mystashedfiles&msfprop=size [open in sandbox]

list=pagepropnames (ppn)

(main | query | pagepropnames)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all page property names in use on the wiki.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Pagepropnames

Parameters:

ppncontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.
ppnlimit: The maximum number of names to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10

Example:

Get first 10 property names.: api.php?action=query&list=pagepropnames [open in sandbox]

list=pageswithprop (pwp)

(main | query | pageswithprop)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all pages using a given page property.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Pageswithprop

Parameters:

pwppropname

Page property for which to enumerate pages (action=query&list=pagepropnames returns page property names in use).

This parameter is required.

pwpprop

Which pieces of information to include:

ids: Adds the page ID.
title: Adds the title and namespace ID of the page.
value: Adds the value of the page property.

Values (separate with | or alternative): ids, title, value

Default: ids|title

pwpcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

pwplimit

The maximum number of pages to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

pwpdir

In which direction to sort.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

Examples:

List the first 10 pages using {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}.: api.php?action=query&list=pageswithprop&pwppropname=displaytitle&pwpprop=ids|title|value [open in sandbox]
Get additional information about the first 10 pages using __NOTOC__.: api.php?action=query&generator=pageswithprop&gpwppropname=notoc&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=prefixsearch (ps)

(main | query | prefixsearch)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Perform a prefix search for page titles.

Despite the similarity in names, this module is not intended to be equivalent to Special:PrefixIndex; for that, see action=query&list=allpages with the apprefix parameter. The purpose of this module is similar to action=opensearch: to take user input and provide the best-matching titles. Depending on the search engine backend, this might include typo correction, redirect avoidance, or other heuristics.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Prefixsearch

Parameters:

pssearch: Search string.; This parameter is required.
psnamespace: Namespaces to search. Ignored if pssearch begins with a valid namespace prefix.; Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; To specify all values, use *.; Default: 0
pslimit: Maximum number of results to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
psoffset: When more results are available, use this to continue.; Type: integer; Default: 0

Example:

Search for page titles beginning with meaning.: api.php?action=query&list=prefixsearch&pssearch=meaning [open in sandbox]

list=protectedtitles (pt)

(main | query | protectedtitles)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List all titles protected from creation.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Protectedtitles

Parameters:

ptnamespace

Only list titles in these namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

ptlevel

Only list titles with these protection levels.

Values (separate with | or alternative): autoconfirmed, sysop

ptlimit

How many total pages to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

ptdir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: ptstart has to be before ptend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: ptstart has to be later than ptend.

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

ptstart

Start listing at this protection timestamp.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

ptend

Stop listing at this protection timestamp.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

ptprop

Which properties to get:

timestamp: Adds the timestamp of when protection was added.
user: Adds the user that added the protection.
userid: Adds the user ID that added the protection.
comment: Adds the comment for the protection.
parsedcomment: Adds the parsed comment for the protection.
expiry: Adds the timestamp of when the protection will be lifted.
level: Adds the protection level.

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, expiry, level, parsedcomment, timestamp, user, userid

Default: timestamp|level

ptcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

List protected titles.: api.php?action=query&list=protectedtitles [open in sandbox]
Find links to protected titles in the main namespace.: api.php?action=query&generator=protectedtitles&gptnamespace=0&prop=linkshere [open in sandbox]

list=querypage (qp)

(main | query | querypage)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Querypage

Parameters:

qppage: The name of the special page. Note, this is case sensitive.; This parameter is required.; One of the following values: Ancientpages, BrokenRedirects, Deadendpages, DoubleRedirects, Fewestrevisions, ListDuplicatedFiles, Listredirects, Lonelypages, Longpages, MediaStatistics, Mostcategories, Mostimages, Mostinterwikis, Mostlinked, Mostlinkedcategories, Mostlinkedtemplates, Mostrevisions, Shortpages, Uncategorizedcategories, Uncategorizedimages, Uncategorizedpages, Uncategorizedtemplates, Unusedcategories, Unusedimages, Unusedtemplates, Unwatchedpages, Wantedcategories, Wantedfiles, Wantedpages, Wantedtemplates, Withoutinterwiki
qpoffset: When more results are available, use this to continue.; Type: integer; Default: 0
qplimit: Number of results to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10

Example:

Return results from Special:Ancientpages.: api.php?action=query&list=querypage&qppage=Ancientpages [open in sandbox]

list=random (rn)

(main | query | random)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get a set of random pages.

Pages are listed in a fixed sequence, only the starting point is random. This means that if, for example, Main Page is the first random page in the list, List of fictional monkeys will always be second, List of people on stamps of Vanuatu third, etc.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Random

Parameters:

rnnamespace: Return pages in these namespaces only.; Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; To specify all values, use *.
rnfilterredir: How to filter for redirects.; One of the following values: all, nonredirects, redirects; Default: nonredirects
rnredirect: Deprecated.; Use rnfilterredir=redirects instead.; Type: boolean (details)
rnlimit: Limit how many random pages will be returned.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 1
rncontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

Return two random pages from the main namespace.: api.php?action=query&list=random&rnnamespace=0&rnlimit=2 [open in sandbox]
Return page info about two random pages from the main namespace.: api.php?action=query&generator=random&grnnamespace=0&grnlimit=2&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=recentchanges (rc)

(main | query | recentchanges)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Enumerate recent changes.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Recentchanges

Parameters:

rcstart

The timestamp to start enumerating from.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

rcend

The timestamp to end enumerating.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

rcdir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: rcstart has to be before rcend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: rcstart has to be later than rcend.

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

rcnamespace

Filter changes to only these namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): -1, -2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

rcuser

Only list changes by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

rcexcludeuser

Don't list changes by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

rctag

Only list changes tagged with this tag.

rcprop

Include additional pieces of information:

user: Adds the user responsible for the edit and tags if they are an IP. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
userid: Adds the user ID responsible for the edit. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
comment: Adds the comment for the edit. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: Adds the parsed comment for the edit. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
flags: Adds flags for the edit.
timestamp: Adds timestamp of the edit.
title: Adds the page title of the edit.
ids: Adds the page ID, recent changes ID and the new and old revision ID.
sizes: Adds the new and old page length in bytes.
redirect: Tags edit if page is a redirect.
patrolled: Tags patrollable edits as being patrolled or unpatrolled.
loginfo: Adds log information (log ID, log type, etc) to log entries.
tags: Lists tags for the entry.
sha1: Adds the content checksum for entries associated with a revision. If the content has been revision deleted, a sha1hidden property will be returned.

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, flags, ids, loginfo, parsedcomment, patrolled, redirect, sha1, sizes, tags, timestamp, title, user, userid

Default: title|timestamp|ids

rctoken

Deprecated.

Use action=query&meta=tokens instead.

Values (separate with | or alternative): patrol

rcshow

Show only items that meet these criteria. For example, to see only minor edits done by logged-in users, set rcshow=minor|!anon.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !anon, !autopatrolled, !bot, !minor, !patrolled, !redirect, anon, autopatrolled, bot, minor, patrolled, redirect, unpatrolled

rclimit

How many total changes to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

rctype

Which types of changes to show.

Values (separate with | or alternative): categorize, edit, external, log, new

Default: edit|new|log|categorize

rctoponly

Only list changes which are the latest revision.

Type: boolean (details)

rctitle

Filter entries to those related to a page.

rccontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

rcgeneraterevisions

When being used as a generator, generate revision IDs rather than titles. Recent change entries without associated revision IDs (e.g. most log entries) will generate nothing.

Type: boolean (details)

rcslot

Only list changes that touch the named slot.

One of the following values: main

Examples:

List recent changes.: api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges [open in sandbox]
Get page info about recent unpatrolled changes.: api.php?action=query&generator=recentchanges&grcshow=!patrolled&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=search (sr)

(main | query | search)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Perform a full text search.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Search

Parameters:

srsearch

Search for page titles or content matching this value. You can use the search string to invoke special search features, depending on what the wiki's search backend implements.

This parameter is required.

srnamespace

Search only within these namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

Default: 0

srlimit

How many total pages to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

sroffset

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Type: integer

Default: 0

srwhat

Which type of search to perform.

One of the following values: nearmatch, text, title

srinfo

Which metadata to return.

Values (separate with | or alternative): rewrittenquery, suggestion, totalhits

Default: totalhits|suggestion|rewrittenquery

srprop

Which properties to return:

size: Adds the size of the page in bytes.
wordcount: Adds the word count of the page.
timestamp: Adds the timestamp of when the page was last edited.
snippet: Adds a parsed snippet of the page.
titlesnippet: Adds a parsed snippet of the page title.
redirecttitle: Adds the title of the matching redirect.
redirectsnippet: Adds a parsed snippet of the redirect title.
sectiontitle: Adds the title of the matching section.
sectionsnippet: Adds a parsed snippet of the matching section title.
isfilematch: Adds a boolean indicating if the search matched file content.
categorysnippet: Adds a parsed snippet of the matching category.
score: Deprecated. Ignored.
hasrelated: Deprecated. Ignored.
extensiondata: Adds extra data generated by extensions.

Values (separate with | or alternative): categorysnippet, extensiondata, isfilematch, redirectsnippet, redirecttitle, sectionsnippet, sectiontitle, size, snippet, timestamp, titlesnippet, wordcount, hasrelated, score

Default: size|wordcount|timestamp|snippet

srinterwiki

Include interwiki results in the search, if available.

Type: boolean (details)

srenablerewrites

Enable internal query rewriting. Some search backends can rewrite the query into another which is thought to provide better results, for instance by correcting spelling errors.

Type: boolean (details)

srsort

Set the sort order of returned results.

One of the following values: relevance

Default: relevance

Examples:

Search for meaning.: api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=meaning [open in sandbox]
Search texts for meaning.: api.php?action=query&list=search&srwhat=text&srsearch=meaning [open in sandbox]
Get page info about the pages returned for a search for meaning.: api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=meaning&prop=info [open in sandbox]

list=tags (tg)

(main | query | tags)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

List change tags.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tags

Parameters:

tgcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

tglimit

The maximum number of tags to list.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

tgprop

Which properties to get:

displayname: Adds system message for the tag.
description: Adds description of the tag.
hitcount: Adds the number of revisions and log entries that have this tag.
defined: Indicate whether the tag is defined.
source: Gets the sources of the tag, which may include extension for extension-defined tags and manual for tags that may be applied manually by users.
active: Whether the tag is still being applied.

Values (separate with | or alternative): active, defined, description, displayname, hitcount, source

Default: (empty)

Example:

List available tags.: api.php?action=query&list=tags&tgprop=displayname|description|hitcount|defined [open in sandbox]

list=usercontribs (uc)

(main | query | usercontribs)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get all edits by a user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Usercontribs

Parameters:

uclimit

The maximum number of contributions to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

ucstart

The start timestamp to return from.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

ucend

The end timestamp to return to.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

uccontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

ucuser

The users to retrieve contributions for. Cannot be used with ucuserids or ucuserprefix.

Type: list of users, by any of user name, IP and interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName")

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

ucuserids

The user IDs to retrieve contributions for. Cannot be used with ucuser or ucuserprefix.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

ucuserprefix

Retrieve contributions for all users whose names begin with this value. Cannot be used with ucuser or ucuserids.

ucdir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: ucstart has to be before ucend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: ucstart has to be later than ucend.

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

ucnamespace

Only list contributions in these namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

ucprop

Include additional pieces of information:

ids: Adds the page ID and revision ID.
title: Adds the title and namespace ID of the page.
timestamp: Adds the timestamp of the edit.
comment: Adds the comment of the edit. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: Adds the parsed comment of the edit. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
size: Adds the new size of the edit.
sizediff: Adds the size delta of the edit against its parent.
flags: Adds flags of the edit.
patrolled: Tags patrolled edits.
tags: Lists tags for the edit.

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, flags, ids, parsedcomment, patrolled, size, sizediff, tags, timestamp, title

ucshow

Show only items that meet these criteria, e.g. non minor edits only: ucshow=!minor.

If ucshow=patrolled or ucshow=!patrolled is set, revisions older than $wgRCMaxAge (7776000 seconds) won't be shown.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !autopatrolled, !minor, !new, !patrolled, !top, autopatrolled, minor, new, patrolled, top

uctag

Only list revisions tagged with this tag.

uctoponly

Deprecated.

Only list changes which are the latest revision.

Type: boolean (details)

Examples:

Show contributions of user Example.: api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuser=Example [open in sandbox]
Show contributions from all IP addresses with prefix 192.0.2..: api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuserprefix=192.0.2. [open in sandbox]

list=users (us)

(main | query | users)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get information about a list of users.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Users

Parameters:

usprop

Which pieces of information to include:

blockinfo: Tags if the user is blocked, by whom, and for what reason.
groups: Lists all the groups each user belongs to.
groupmemberships: Lists groups that each user has been explicitly assigned to, including the expiry date of each group membership.
implicitgroups: Lists all the groups a user is automatically a member of.
rights: Lists all the rights each user has.
editcount: Adds the user's edit count.
registration: Adds the user's registration timestamp.
emailable: Tags if the user can and wants to receive email through Special:Emailuser.
gender: Tags the gender of the user. Returns "male", "female", or "unknown".
centralids: Adds the central IDs and attachment status for the user.
cancreate: Indicates whether an account for valid but unregistered usernames can be created.

Values (separate with | or alternative): blockinfo, cancreate, centralids, editcount, emailable, gender, groupmemberships, groups, implicitgroups, registration, rights

usattachedwiki

With usprop=centralids, indicate whether the user is attached with the wiki identified by this ID.

ususers

A list of users to obtain information for.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

ususerids

A list of user IDs to obtain information for.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

ustoken

Deprecated.

Use action=query&meta=tokens instead.

Values (separate with | or alternative): userrights

Example:

Return information for user Example.: api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Example&usprop=groups|editcount|gender [open in sandbox]

list=watchlist (wl)

(main | query | watchlist)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get recent changes to pages in the current user's watchlist.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Watchlist

Parameters:

wlallrev

Include multiple revisions of the same page within given timeframe.

Type: boolean (details)

wlstart

The timestamp to start enumerating from.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

wlend

The timestamp to end enumerating.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

wlnamespace

Filter changes to only the given namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

wluser

Only list changes by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

wlexcludeuser

Don't list changes by this user.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

wldir

In which direction to enumerate:

newer: List oldest first. Note: wlstart has to be before wlend.
older: List newest first (default). Note: wlstart has to be later than wlend.

One of the following values: newer, older

Default: older

wllimit

How many total results to return per request.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

wlprop

Which additional properties to get:

ids: Adds revision IDs and page IDs.
title: Adds title of the page.
flags: Adds flags for the edit.
user: Adds the user who made the edit. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
userid: Adds user ID of whoever made the edit. If the user has been revision deleted, a userhidden property will be returned.
comment: Adds comment of the edit. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
parsedcomment: Adds parsed comment of the edit. If the comment has been revision deleted, a commenthidden property will be returned.
timestamp: Adds timestamp of the edit.
patrol: Tags edits that are patrolled.
sizes: Adds the old and new lengths of the page.
notificationtimestamp: Adds timestamp of when the user was last notified about the edit.
loginfo: Adds log information where appropriate.
tags: Lists tags for the entry.
expiry: (no description)

Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, expiry, flags, ids, loginfo, notificationtimestamp, parsedcomment, patrol, sizes, tags, timestamp, title, user, userid

Default: ids|title|flags

wlshow

Show only items that meet these criteria. For example, to see only minor edits done by logged-in users, set wlshow=minor|!anon.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !anon, !autopatrolled, !bot, !minor, !patrolled, !unread, anon, autopatrolled, bot, minor, patrolled, unread

wltype

Which types of changes to show:

edit: Regular page edits.
new: Page creations.
log: Log entries.
external: External changes.
categorize: Category membership changes.

Values (separate with | or alternative): categorize, edit, external, log, new

Default: edit|new|log|categorize

wlowner

Used along with wltoken to access a different user's watchlist.

Type: user, by user name

wltoken

A security token (available in the user's preferences) to allow access to another user's watchlist.

wlcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

List the top revision for recently changed pages on the current user's watchlist.: api.php?action=query&list=watchlist [open in sandbox]
Fetch additional information about the top revision for recently changed pages on the current user's watchlist.: api.php?action=query&list=watchlist&wlprop=ids|title|timestamp|user|comment [open in sandbox]
Fetch additional information about the top revision for recently changed pages on the current user's watchlist, including when temporarily watched items will expire.: api.php?action=query&list=watchlist&wlprop=ids|title|timestamp|user|comment|expiry [open in sandbox]
Fetch information about all recent changes to pages on the current user's watchlist.: api.php?action=query&list=watchlist&wlallrev=&wlprop=ids|title|timestamp|user|comment [open in sandbox]
Fetch page info for recently changed pages on the current user's watchlist.: api.php?action=query&generator=watchlist&prop=info [open in sandbox]
Fetch revision info for recent changes to pages on the current user's watchlist.: api.php?action=query&generator=watchlist&gwlallrev=&prop=revisions&rvprop=timestamp|user [open in sandbox]
List the top revision for recently changed pages on the watchlist of user Example.: api.php?action=query&list=watchlist&wlowner=Example&wltoken=123ABC [open in sandbox]

list=watchlistraw (wr)

(main | query | watchlistraw)

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get all pages on the current user's watchlist.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Watchlistraw

Parameters:

wrcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

wrnamespace

Only list pages in the given namespaces.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

To specify all values, use *.

wrlimit

How many total results to return per request.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

wrprop

Which additional properties to get:

changed: Adds timestamp of when the user was last notified about the edit.

Values (separate with | or alternative): changed

wrshow

Only list items that meet these criteria.

Values (separate with | or alternative): !changed, changed

wrowner

Used along with wrtoken to access a different user's watchlist.

Type: user, by user name

wrtoken

A security token (available in the user's preferences) to allow access to another user's watchlist.

wrdir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

wrfromtitle

Title (with namespace prefix) to begin enumerating from.

wrtotitle

Title (with namespace prefix) to stop enumerating at.

Examples:

List pages on the current user's watchlist.: api.php?action=query&list=watchlistraw [open in sandbox]
Fetch page info for pages on the current user's watchlist.: api.php?action=query&generator=watchlistraw&gwrshow=changed&prop=info [open in sandbox]

meta=allmessages (am)

(main | query | allmessages)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Return messages from this site.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Allmessages

Parameters:

ammessages: Which messages to output. * (default) means all messages.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).; Default: *
amprop: Which properties to get.; Values (separate with | or alternative): default
amenableparser: Set to enable parser, will preprocess the wikitext of message (substitute magic words, handle templates, etc.).; Type: boolean (details)
amnocontent: If set, do not include the content of the messages in the output.; Type: boolean (details)
amincludelocal: Also include local messages, i.e. messages that don't exist in the software but do exist as in the MediaWiki namespace. This lists all MediaWiki-namespace pages, so it will also list those that aren't really messages such as Common.js.; Type: boolean (details)
amargs: Arguments to be substituted into message.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
amfilter: Return only messages with names that contain this string.
amcustomised: Return only messages in this customisation state.; One of the following values: all, modified, unmodified; Default: all
amlang: Return messages in this language.
amfrom: Return messages starting at this message.
amto: Return messages ending at this message.
amtitle: Page name to use as context when parsing message (for amenableparser option).
amprefix: Return messages with this prefix.

Examples:

Show messages starting with ipb-.: api.php?action=query&meta=allmessages&amprefix=ipb- [open in sandbox]
Show messages august and mainpage in German.: api.php?action=query&meta=allmessages&ammessages=august|mainpage&amlang=de [open in sandbox]

meta=authmanagerinfo (ami)

(main | query | authmanagerinfo)

Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Retrieve information about the current authentication status.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Authmanagerinfo

Parameters:

amisecuritysensitiveoperation: Test whether the user's current authentication status is sufficient for the specified security-sensitive operation.
amirequestsfor: Fetch information about the authentication requests needed for the specified authentication action.; One of the following values: change, create, create-continue, link, link-continue, login, login-continue, remove, unlink
amimergerequestfields: Merge field information for all authentication requests into one array.; Type: boolean (details)
amimessageformat: Format to use for returning messages.; One of the following values: html, none, raw, wikitext; Default: wikitext

Examples:

Fetch the requests that may be used when beginning a login.: api.php?action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo&amirequestsfor=login [open in sandbox]
Fetch the requests that may be used when beginning a login, with form fields merged.: api.php?action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo&amirequestsfor=login&amimergerequestfields=1 [open in sandbox]
Test whether authentication is sufficient for action foo.: api.php?action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo&amisecuritysensitiveoperation=foo [open in sandbox]

meta=filerepoinfo (fri)

(main | query | filerepoinfo)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Return meta information about image repositories configured on the wiki.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Filerepoinfo

Parameter:

friprop

Which repository properties to get (properties available may vary on other wikis).

canUpload: Whether files can be uploaded to this repository, e.g. via CORS and shared authentication.
displayname: The human-readable name of the repository wiki.
favicon: Repository wiki's favicon URL, from $wgFavicon.
initialCapital: Whether file names implicitly start with a capital letter.
local: Whether that repository is the local one or not.
name: The key of the repository - used in e.g. $wgForeignFileRepos and imageinfo return values.
rootUrl: Root URL path for image paths.
scriptDirUrl: Root URL path for the repository wiki's MediaWiki installation.
thumbUrl: Root URL path for thumbnail paths.
url: Public zone URL path.

Values (separate with | or alternative): canUpload, displayname, favicon, initialCapital, local, name, rootUrl, scriptDirUrl, thumbUrl, url

Example:

Get information about file repositories.: api.php?action=query&meta=filerepoinfo&friprop=name|displayname [open in sandbox]

meta=languageinfo (li)

(main | query | languageinfo)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Return information about available languages.

Continuation may be applied if retrieving the information takes too long for one request.

Parameters:

liprop

Which information to get for each language.

code: The language code. (This code is MediaWiki-specific, though there are overlaps with other standards.)
bcp47: The BCP-47 language code.
dir: The writing direction of the language (either ltr or rtl).
autonym: The autonym of the language, that is, the name in that language.
name: The name of the language in the language specified by the uselang parameter, with language fallbacks applied if necessary.
fallbacks: The language codes of the fallback languages configured for this language. The implicit final fallback to 'en' is not included (but some languages may fall back to 'en' explicitly).
variants: The language codes of the variants supported by this language.

Values (separate with | or alternative): autonym, bcp47, code, dir, fallbacks, name, variants

Default: code

licode

Language codes of the languages that should be returned, or * for all languages.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

Default: *

licontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

Examples:

Get the language codes of all supported languages.: api.php?action=query&meta=languageinfo [open in sandbox]
Get the autonyms and German names of all supported languages.: api.php?action=query&meta=languageinfo&liprop=autonym|name&uselang=de [open in sandbox]
Get the fallback languages and variants of Occitan.: api.php?action=query&meta=languageinfo&liprop=fallbacks|variants&licode=oc [open in sandbox]
Get the BCP-47 language code and direction of all supported languages.: api.php?action=query&meta=languageinfo&liprop=bcp47|dir [open in sandbox]

meta=siteinfo (si)

(main | query | siteinfo)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Return general information about the site.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Siteinfo

Parameters:

siprop

Which information to get:

general: Overall system information.
namespaces: List of registered namespaces and their canonical names.
namespacealiases: List of registered namespace aliases.
specialpagealiases: List of special page aliases.
magicwords: List of magic words and their aliases.
interwikimap: Returns interwiki map (optionally filtered, optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode).
dbrepllag: Returns database server with the highest replication lag.
statistics: Returns site statistics.
usergroups: Returns user groups and the associated permissions.
libraries: Returns libraries installed on the wiki.
extensions: Returns extensions installed on the wiki.
fileextensions: Returns list of file extensions (file types) allowed to be uploaded.
rightsinfo: Returns wiki rights (license) information if available.
restrictions: Returns information on available restriction (protection) types.
languages: Returns a list of languages MediaWiki supports (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode).
languagevariants: Returns a list of language codes for which LanguageConverter is enabled, and the variants supported for each.
skins: Returns a list of all enabled skins (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode, otherwise in the content language).
extensiontags: Returns a list of parser extension tags.
functionhooks: Returns a list of parser function hooks.
showhooks: Returns a list of all subscribed hooks (contents of $wgHooks).
variables: Returns a list of variable IDs.
protocols: Returns a list of protocols that are allowed in external links.
defaultoptions: Returns the default values for user preferences.
uploaddialog: Returns the upload dialog configuration.

Values (separate with | or alternative): dbrepllag, defaultoptions, extensions, extensiontags, fileextensions, functionhooks, general, interwikimap, languages, languagevariants, libraries, magicwords, namespacealiases, namespaces, protocols, restrictions, rightsinfo, showhooks, skins, specialpagealiases, statistics, uploaddialog, usergroups, variables

Default: general

sifilteriw

Return only local or only nonlocal entries of the interwiki map.

One of the following values: !local, local

sishowalldb

List all database servers, not just the one lagging the most.

Type: boolean (details)

sinumberingroup

Lists the number of users in user groups.

Type: boolean (details)

siinlanguagecode

Language code for localised language names (best effort) and skin names.

Examples:

Fetch site information.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general|namespaces|namespacealiases|statistics [open in sandbox]
Fetch a list of local interwiki prefixes.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap&sifilteriw=local [open in sandbox]
Check the current replication lag.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag&sishowalldb= [open in sandbox]

meta=tokens

(main | query | tokens)

Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Gets tokens for data-modifying actions.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tokens

Parameter:

type: Types of token to request.; Values (separate with | or alternative): createaccount, csrf, login, patrol, rollback, userrights, watch; Default: csrf

Examples:

Retrieve a csrf token (the default).: api.php?action=query&meta=tokens [open in sandbox]
Retrieve a watch token and a patrol token.: api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=watch|patrol [open in sandbox]

meta=userinfo (ui)

(main | query | userinfo)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get information about the current user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Userinfo

Parameters:

uiprop

Which pieces of information to include:

blockinfo: Tags if the current user is blocked, by whom, and for what reason.
hasmsg: Adds a tag messages if the current user has pending messages.
groups: Lists all the groups the current user belongs to.
groupmemberships: Lists groups that the current user has been explicitly assigned to, including the expiry date of each group membership.
implicitgroups: Lists all the groups the current user is automatically a member of.
rights: Lists all the rights the current user has.
changeablegroups: Lists the groups the current user can add to and remove from.
options: Lists all preferences the current user has set.
editcount: Adds the current user's edit count.
ratelimits: Lists all rate limits applying to the current user.
theoreticalratelimits: Lists all rate limits that would apply to the current user if they were not exempt from all ratelimits based on user rights or ip
email: Adds the user's email address and email authentication date.
realname: Adds the user's real name.
acceptlang: Echoes the Accept-Language header sent by the client in a structured format.
registrationdate: Adds the user's registration date.
unreadcount: Adds the count of unread pages on the user's watchlist (maximum 999; returns 1000+ if more).
centralids: Adds the central IDs and attachment status for the user.
preferencestoken: Deprecated. Get a token to change current user's preferences.
latestcontrib: Adds the date of user's latest contribution.

Values (separate with | or alternative): acceptlang, blockinfo, centralids, changeablegroups, editcount, email, groupmemberships, groups, hasmsg, implicitgroups, latestcontrib, options, ratelimits, realname, registrationdate, rights, theoreticalratelimits, unreadcount, preferencestoken

To specify all values, use *.

uiattachedwiki

With uiprop=centralids, indicate whether the user is attached with the wiki identified by this ID.

Examples:

Get information about the current user.: api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo [open in sandbox]
Get additional information about the current user.: api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo|groups|rights|hasmsg [open in sandbox]

action=removeauthenticationdata

(main | removeauthenticationdata)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Remove authentication data for the current user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Manage_authentication_data

Parameters:

request: Use this authentication request, by the id returned from action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=remove.; This parameter is required.
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Example:

Attempt to remove the current user's data for FooAuthenticationRequest.: api.php?action=removeauthenticationdata&request=FooAuthenticationRequest&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=resetpassword

(main | resetpassword)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Send a password reset email to a user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Manage_authentication_data

Parameters:

user: User being reset.; Type: user, by user name
email: Email address of the user being reset.
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Send a password reset email to user Example.: api.php?action=resetpassword&user=Example&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Send a password reset email for all users with email address user@example.com.: api.php?action=resetpassword&user=user@example.com&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=revisiondelete

(main | revisiondelete)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Delete and undelete revisions.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Revisiondelete

Parameters:

type: Type of revision deletion being performed.; This parameter is required.; One of the following values: archive, filearchive, logging, oldimage, revision
target: Page title for the revision deletion, if required for the type.
ids: Identifiers for the revisions to be deleted.; This parameter is required.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
hide: What to hide for each revision.; Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, content, user
show: What to unhide for each revision.; Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, content, user
suppress: Whether to suppress data from administrators as well as others.; One of the following values: no, nochange, yes; Default: nochange
reason: Reason for the deletion or undeletion.
tags: Tags to apply to the entry in the deletion log.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Hide content for revision 12345 on the page Main Page.: api.php?action=revisiondelete&target=Main%20Page&type=revision&ids=12345&hide=content&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Hide all data on log entry 67890 with the reason BLP violation.: api.php?action=revisiondelete&type=logging&ids=67890&hide=content|comment|user&reason=BLP%20violation&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=rollback

(main | rollback)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Undo the last edit to the page.

If the last user who edited the page made multiple edits in a row, they will all be rolled back.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Rollback

Parameters:

title

Title of the page to roll back. Cannot be used together with pageid.

pageid

Page ID of the page to roll back. Cannot be used together with title.

Type: integer

tags

Tags to apply to the rollback.

Values (separate with | or alternative):

user

Name of the user whose edits are to be rolled back.

This parameter is required.

Type: user, by any of user name, IP, interwiki name (e.g. "prefix>ExampleName") and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

summary

Custom edit summary. If empty, default summary will be used.

Default: (empty)

markbot

Mark the reverted edits and the revert as bot edits.

Type: boolean (details)

watchlist

Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences (ignored for bot users) or do not change watch.

One of the following values: nochange, preferences, unwatch, watch

Default: preferences

token

A "rollback" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

For compatibility, the token used in the web UI is also accepted.

This parameter is required.

Examples:

Roll back the last edits to page Main Page by user Example.: api.php?action=rollback&title=Main%20Page&user=Example&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Roll back the last edits to page Main Page by IP user 192.0.2.5 with summary Reverting vandalism, and mark those edits and the revert as bot edits.: api.php?action=rollback&title=Main%20Page&user=192.0.2.5&token=123ABC&summary=Reverting%20vandalism&markbot=1 [open in sandbox]

action=rsd

(main | rsd)

Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Export an RSD (Really Simple Discovery) schema.

Example:

Export the RSD schema.: api.php?action=rsd [open in sandbox]

action=setnotificationtimestamp

(main | setnotificationtimestamp)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Update the notification timestamp for watched pages.

This affects the highlighting of changed pages in the watchlist and history, and the sending of email when the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" preference is enabled.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:SetNotificationTimestamp

Parameters:

entirewatchlist

Work on all watched pages.

Type: boolean (details)

timestamp

Timestamp to which to set the notification timestamp.

Type: timestamp (allowed formats)

torevid

Revision to set the notification timestamp to (one page only).

Type: integer

newerthanrevid

Revision to set the notification timestamp newer than (one page only).

Type: integer

continue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

titles

A list of titles to work on.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

pageids

A list of page IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

revids

A list of revision IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

generator

Get the list of pages to work on by executing the specified query module.

Note: Generator parameter names must be prefixed with a "g", see examples.

allcategories: Enumerate all categories.
alldeletedrevisions: List all deleted revisions by a user or in a namespace.
allfileusages: List all file usages, including non-existing.
allimages: Enumerate all images sequentially.
alllinks: Enumerate all links that point to a given namespace.
allpages: Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace.
allredirects: List all redirects to a namespace.
allrevisions: List all revisions.
alltransclusions: List all transclusions (pages embedded using {{x}}), including non-existing.
backlinks: Find all pages that link to the given page.
categories: List all categories the pages belong to.
categorymembers: List all pages in a given category.
deletedrevisions: Get deleted revision information.
duplicatefiles: List all files that are duplicates of the given files based on hash values.
embeddedin: Find all pages that embed (transclude) the given title.
exturlusage: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.
fileusage: Find all pages that use the given files.
images: Returns all files contained on the given pages.
imageusage: Find all pages that use the given image title.
iwbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given interwiki link.
langbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given language link.
links: Returns all links from the given pages.
linkshere: Find all pages that link to the given pages.
pageswithprop: List all pages using a given page property.
prefixsearch: Perform a prefix search for page titles.
protectedtitles: List all titles protected from creation.
querypage: Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.
random: Get a set of random pages.
recentchanges: Enumerate recent changes.
redirects: Returns all redirects to the given pages.
revisions: Get revision information.
search: Perform a full text search.
templates: Returns all pages transcluded on the given pages.
transcludedin: Find all pages that transclude the given pages.
watchlist: Get recent changes to pages in the current user's watchlist.
watchlistraw: Get all pages on the current user's watchlist.

redirects

Automatically resolve redirects in titles, pageids, and revids, and in pages returned by generator.

Type: boolean (details)

converttitles

Type: boolean (details)

token

A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

This parameter is required.

Examples:

Reset the notification status for the entire watchlist.: api.php?action=setnotificationtimestamp&entirewatchlist=&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Reset the notification status for Main page.: api.php?action=setnotificationtimestamp&titles=Main_page&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Set the notification timestamp for Main page so all edits since 1 January 2012 are unviewed.: api.php?action=setnotificationtimestamp&titles=Main_page&timestamp=2012-01-01T00:00:00Z&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Reset the notification status for pages in the User namespace.: api.php?action=setnotificationtimestamp&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=2&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=setpagelanguage

(main | setpagelanguage)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Change the language of a page.

Changing the language of a page is not allowed on this wiki.

Enable $wgPageLanguageUseDB to use this action.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:SetPageLanguage

Parameters:

title: Title of the page whose language you wish to change. Cannot be used together with pageid.
pageid: Page ID of the page whose language you wish to change. Cannot be used together with title.; Type: integer
lang: Language code of the language to change the page to. Use default to reset the page to the wiki's default content language.; This parameter is required.; One of the following values: ab, abs, ace, ady, ady-cyrl, aeb, aeb-arab, aeb-latn, af, ak, aln, alt, am, ami, an, ang, anp, ar, arc, arn, arq, ary, arz, as, ase, ast, atj, av, avk, awa, ay, az, azb, ba, ban, ban-bali, bar, bbc, bbc-latn, bcc, bcl, be, be-tarask, bg, bgn, bh, bho, bi, bjn, bm, bn, bo, bpy, bqi, br, brh, bs, btm, bto, bug, bxr, ca, cbk-zam, cdo, ce, ceb, ch, chr, chy, ckb, co, cps, cr, crh, crh-cyrl, crh-latn, cs, csb, cu, cv, cy, da, de, de-at, de-ch, de-formal, default, din, diq, dsb, dtp, dty, dv, dz, ee, egl, el, eml, en, en-ca, en-gb, eo, es, es-formal, et, eu, ext, fa, ff, fi, fit, fj, fo, fr, frc, frp, frr, fur, fy, ga, gag, gan, gan-hans, gan-hant, gcr, gd, gl, glk, gn, gom, gom-deva, gom-latn, gor, got, grc, gsw, gu, guc, gv, ha, hak, haw, he, hi, hif, hif-latn, hil, hr, hrx, hsb, ht, hu, hu-formal, hy, hyw, ia, id, ie, ig, ii, ik, ike-cans, ike-latn, ilo, inh, io, is, it, iu, ja, jam, jbo, jut, jv, ka, kaa, kab, kbd, kbd-cyrl, kbp, kcg, kg, khw, ki, kiu, kjp, kk, kk-arab, kk-cn, kk-cyrl, kk-kz, kk-latn, kk-tr, kl, km, kn, ko, ko-kp, koi, krc, kri, krj, krl, ks, ks-arab, ks-deva, ksh, ku, ku-arab, ku-latn, kum, kv, kw, ky, la, lad, lb, lbe, lez, lfn, lg, li, lij, liv, lki, lld, lmo, ln, lo, loz, lrc, lt, ltg, lus, luz, lv, lzh, lzz, mad, mai, map-bms, mdf, mg, mhr, mi, min, mk, ml, mn, mni, mnw, mo, mr, mrh, mrj, ms, mt, mwl, my, myv, mzn, na, nah, nan, nap, nb, nds, nds-nl, ne, new, nia, niu, nl, nl-informal, nn, nov, nqo, nrm, nso, nv, ny, nys, oc, olo, om, or, os, pa, pag, pam, pap, pcd, pdc, pdt, pfl, pi, pih, pl, pms, pnb, pnt, prg, ps, pt, pt-br, qu, qug, rgn, rif, rm, rmy, ro, roa-tara, ru, rue, rup, ruq, ruq-cyrl, ruq-latn, rw, sa, sah, sat, sc, scn, sco, sd, sdc, sdh, se, sei, ses, sg, sgs, sh, shi, shn, shy, shy-latn, si, sk, skr, skr-arab, sl, sli, sm, sma, smn, sn, so, sq, sr, sr-ec, sr-el, srn, ss, st, stq, sty, su, sv, sw, szl, szy, ta, tay, tcy, te, tet, tg, tg-cyrl, tg-latn, th, ti, tk, tl, tly, tn, to, tpi, tr, tru, trv, ts, tt, tt-cyrl, tt-latn, tw, ty, tyv, tzm, udm, ug, ug-arab, ug-latn, uk, ur, uz, ve, vec, vep, vi, vls, vmf, vo, vot, vro, wa, war, wo, wuu, xal, xh, xmf, xsy, yi, yo, yue, za, zea, zgh, zh, zh-cn, zh-hans, zh-hant, zh-hk, zh-mo, zh-my, zh-sg, zh-tw, zu
reason: Reason for the change.
tags: Change tags to apply to the log entry resulting from this action.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Change the language of Main Page to Basque.: api.php?action=setpagelanguage&title=Main%20Page&lang=eu&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Change the language of the page with ID 123 to the wiki's default content language.: api.php?action=setpagelanguage&pageid=123&lang=default&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=stashedit

(main | stashedit)

This module is internal or unstable. Its operation may change without notice.
This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Prepare an edit in shared cache.

This is intended to be used via AJAX from the edit form to improve the performance of the page save.

Parameters:

title: Title of the page being edited.; This parameter is required.
section: Section number. 0 for the top section, new for a new section.
sectiontitle: The title for a new section.
text: Page content.
stashedtexthash: Page content hash from a prior stash to use instead.
summary: Change summary.; Default: (empty)
contentmodel: Content model of the new content.; This parameter is required.; One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext
contentformat: Content serialization format used for the input text.; This parameter is required.; One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown
baserevid: Revision ID of the base revision.; This parameter is required.; Type: integer
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

action=tag

(main | tag)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Add or remove change tags from individual revisions or log entries.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tag

Parameters:

rcid: One or more recent changes IDs from which to add or remove the tag.; Type: list of integers; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
revid: One or more revision IDs from which to add or remove the tag.; Type: list of integers; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
logid: One or more log entry IDs from which to add or remove the tag.; Type: list of integers; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
add: Tags to add. Only manually defined tags can be added.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
remove: Tags to remove. Only tags that are either manually defined or completely undefined can be removed.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
reason: Reason for the change.; Default: (empty)
tags: Tags to apply to the log entry that will be created as a result of this action.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Add the vandalism tag to revision ID 123 without specifying a reason: api.php?action=tag&revid=123&add=vandalism&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Remove the spam tag from log entry ID 123 with the reason Wrongly applied: api.php?action=tag&logid=123&remove=spam&reason=Wrongly+applied&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=tokens

(main | tokens)

This module is deprecated.
This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get tokens for data-modifying actions.

This module is deprecated in favor of action=query&meta=tokens.

Parameter:

type: Types of token to request.; Values (separate with | or alternative): block, createaccount, csrf, delete, edit, email, import, login, move, options, patrol, protect, rollback, unblock, userrights, watch; Default: edit

Examples:

Retrieve an edit token (the default).: api.php?action=tokens [open in sandbox]
Retrieve an email token and a move token.: api.php?action=tokens&type=email|move [open in sandbox]

action=unblock

(main | unblock)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Unblock a user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Block

Parameters:

id: ID of the block to unblock (obtained through list=blocks). Cannot be used together with user.; Type: integer
user: User to unblock. Cannot be used together with id.; Type: user, by any of user name, IP, IP range and user ID (e.g. "#12345")
userid: Deprecated.; Specify user=#ID instead.; Type: integer
reason: Reason for unblock.; Default: (empty)
tags: Change tags to apply to the entry in the block log.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Unblock block ID #105.: api.php?action=unblock&id=105 [open in sandbox]
Unblock user Bob with reason Sorry Bob.: api.php?action=unblock&user=Bob&reason=Sorry%20Bob [open in sandbox]

action=undelete

(main | undelete)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Restore revisions of a deleted page.

A list of deleted revisions (including timestamps) can be retrieved through prop=deletedrevisions, and a list of deleted file IDs can be retrieved through list=filearchive.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Undelete

Parameters:

title: Title of the page to restore.; This parameter is required.
reason: Reason for restoring.; Default: (empty)
tags: Change tags to apply to the entry in the deletion log.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
timestamps: Timestamps of the revisions to restore. If both timestamps and fileids are empty, all will be restored.; Type: list of timestamps (allowed formats); Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
fileids: IDs of the file revisions to restore. If both timestamps and fileids are empty, all will be restored.; Type: list of integers; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
watchlist: Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences (ignored for bot users) or do not change watch.; One of the following values: nochange, preferences, unwatch, watch; Default: preferences
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Undelete page Main Page.: api.php?action=undelete&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&reason=Restoring%20main%20page [open in sandbox]
Undelete two revisions of page Main Page.: api.php?action=undelete&title=Main%20Page&token=123ABC&timestamps=2007-07-03T22:00:45Z|2007-07-02T19:48:56Z [open in sandbox]

action=unlinkaccount

(main | unlinkaccount)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Remove a linked third-party account from the current user.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Manage_authentication_data

Parameters:

request: Use this authentication request, by the id returned from action=query&meta=authmanagerinfo with amirequestsfor=unlink.; This parameter is required.
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Example:

Attempt to remove the current user's link for the provider associated with FooAuthenticationRequest.: api.php?action=unlinkaccount&request=FooAuthenticationRequest&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=upload

(main | upload)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Upload a file, or get the status of pending uploads.

Several methods are available:

Upload file contents directly, using the file parameter.
Upload the file in pieces, using the filesize, chunk, and offset parameters.
Have the MediaWiki server fetch a file from a URL, using the url parameter.
Complete an earlier upload that failed due to warnings, using the filekey parameter.

Note that the HTTP POST must be done as a file upload (i.e. using multipart/form-data) when sending the file.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Upload

Parameters:

filename: Target filename.
comment: Upload comment. Also used as the initial page text for new files if text is not specified.; Default: (empty)
tags: Change tags to apply to the upload log entry and file page revision.; Values (separate with | or alternative):
text: Initial page text for new files.
watch: Deprecated.; Watch the page.; Type: boolean (details)
watchlist: Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences (ignored for bot users) or do not change watch.; One of the following values: nochange, preferences, watch; Default: preferences
ignorewarnings: Ignore any warnings.; Type: boolean (details)
file: File contents.; Must be posted as a file upload using multipart/form-data.
url: URL to fetch the file from.
filekey: Key that identifies a previous upload that was stashed temporarily.
sessionkey: Deprecated.; Same as filekey, maintained for backward compatibility.
stash: If set, the server will stash the file temporarily instead of adding it to the repository.; Type: boolean (details)
filesize: Filesize of entire upload.; Type: integer; The value must be between 0 and 104,857,600.
offset: Offset of chunk in bytes.; Type: integer; The value must be no less than 0.
chunk: Chunk contents.; Must be posted as a file upload using multipart/form-data.
async: Make potentially large file operations asynchronous when possible.; Type: boolean (details)
checkstatus: Only fetch the upload status for the given file key.; Type: boolean (details)
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.

Examples:

Upload from a URL.: api.php?action=upload&filename=Wiki.png&url=http%3A//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Wiki.png&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Complete an upload that failed due to warnings.: api.php?action=upload&filename=Wiki.png&filekey=filekey&ignorewarnings=1&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=userrights

(main | userrights)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Change a user's group membership.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:User_group_membership

Parameters:

user

User.

Type: user, by any of user name and user ID (e.g. "#12345")

userid

Deprecated.

Specify user=#ID instead.

Type: integer

add

Add the user to these groups, or if they are already a member, update the expiry of their membership in that group.

Values (separate with | or alternative): bot, bureaucrat, interface-admin, suppress, sysop

expiry

Expiry timestamps. May be relative (e.g. 5 months or 2 weeks) or absolute (e.g. 2014-09-18T12:34:56Z). If only one timestamp is set, it will be used for all groups passed to the add parameter. Use infinite, indefinite, infinity, or never for a never-expiring user group.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

Default: infinite

remove

Remove the user from these groups.

Values (separate with | or alternative): bot, bureaucrat, interface-admin, suppress, sysop

reason

Reason for the change.

Default: (empty)

token

A "userrights" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

For compatibility, the token used in the web UI is also accepted.

This parameter is required.

tags

Change tags to apply to the entry in the user rights log.

Values (separate with | or alternative):

Examples:

Add user FooBot to group bot, and remove from groups sysop and bureaucrat.: api.php?action=userrights&user=FooBot&add=bot&remove=sysop|bureaucrat&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Add the user with ID 123 to group bot, and remove from groups sysop and bureaucrat.: api.php?action=userrights&userid=123&add=bot&remove=sysop|bureaucrat&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Add user SometimeSysop to group sysop for 1 month.: api.php?action=userrights&user=SometimeSysop&add=sysop&expiry=1%20month&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=validatepassword

(main | validatepassword)

This module requires read rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Validate a password against the wiki's password policies.

Validity is reported as Good if the password is acceptable, Change if the password may be used for login but must be changed, or Invalid if the password is not usable.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Validatepassword

Parameters:

password: Password to validate.; This parameter is required.
user: User name, for use when testing account creation. The named user must not exist.; Type: user, by any of user name and user ID (e.g. "#12345")
email: Email address, for use when testing account creation.
realname: Real name, for use when testing account creation.

Examples:

Validate the password foobar for the current user.: api.php?action=validatepassword&password=foobar [open in sandbox]
Validate the password qwerty for creating user Example.: api.php?action=validatepassword&password=querty&user=Example [open in sandbox]

action=visualeditor

(main | visualeditor)

This module is internal or unstable. Its operation may change without notice.
This module requires read rights.
Source: VisualEditor
License: MIT

Returns HTML5 for a page from the Parsoid service.

Parameters:

page: The page to perform actions on.; This parameter is required.
badetag: If RESTBase query returned a seemingly invalid ETag, pass it here for logging purposes.
format: The format of the output.; One of the following values: json, jsonfm; Default: jsonfm
paction: Action to perform.; This parameter is required.; One of the following values: metadata, parse, parsedoc, parsefragment, templatesused, wikitext
wikitext: Wikitext to send to Parsoid to convert to HTML (paction=parsefragment).
section: The section on which to act.
stash: When saving, set this true if you want to use the stashing API.
oldid: The revision number to use (defaults to latest revision).
editintro: Edit intro to add to notices.
pst: Pre-save transform wikitext before sending it to Parsoid (paction=parsefragment).; Type: boolean (details)
preload: The page to use content from if the fetched page has no content yet.
preloadparams: Parameters to substitute into the preload page, if present.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

action=visualeditoredit

(main | visualeditoredit)

This module is internal or unstable. Its operation may change without notice.
This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: VisualEditor
License: MIT

Save an HTML5 page to MediaWiki (converted to wikitext via the Parsoid service).

Parameters:

paction: Action to perform.; This parameter is required.; One of the following values: diff, save, serialize, serializeforcache
page: The page to perform actions on.; This parameter is required.
token: A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens; This parameter is required.
wikitext: The wikitext to act with.
section: The section on which to act.
sectiontitle: Title for new section.
basetimestamp: When saving, set this to the timestamp of the revision that was edited. Used to detect edit conflicts.
starttimestamp: When saving, set this to the timestamp of when the page was loaded. Used to detect edit conflicts.
oldid: The revision number to use. Defaults to latest revision. Use 0 for a new page.
minor: Flag for minor edit.
watchlist: Unconditionally add or remove the page from the current user's watchlist, use preferences (ignored for bot users) or do not change watch.
html: HTML to send to Parsoid in exchange for wikitext.
etag: ETag to send.
summary: Edit summary.
captchaid: Captcha ID (when saving with a captcha response).
captchaword: Answer to the captcha (when saving with a captcha response).
cachekey: Use the result of a previous serializeforcache request with this key. Overrides html.
tags: Change tags to apply to the edit.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

action=watch

(main | watch)

This module requires read rights.
This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Add or remove pages from the current user's watchlist.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Watch

Parameters:

title

Deprecated.

The page to (un)watch. Use titles instead.

unwatch

If set the page will be unwatched rather than watched.

Type: boolean (details)

continue

When more results are available, use this to continue.

titles

A list of titles to work on.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

pageids

A list of page IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

revids

A list of revision IDs to work on.

Type: list of integers

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).

generator

Get the list of pages to work on by executing the specified query module.

Note: Generator parameter names must be prefixed with a "g", see examples.

allcategories: Enumerate all categories.
alldeletedrevisions: List all deleted revisions by a user or in a namespace.
allfileusages: List all file usages, including non-existing.
allimages: Enumerate all images sequentially.
alllinks: Enumerate all links that point to a given namespace.
allpages: Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace.
allredirects: List all redirects to a namespace.
allrevisions: List all revisions.
alltransclusions: List all transclusions (pages embedded using {{x}}), including non-existing.
backlinks: Find all pages that link to the given page.
categories: List all categories the pages belong to.
categorymembers: List all pages in a given category.
deletedrevisions: Get deleted revision information.
duplicatefiles: List all files that are duplicates of the given files based on hash values.
embeddedin: Find all pages that embed (transclude) the given title.
exturlusage: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.
fileusage: Find all pages that use the given files.
images: Returns all files contained on the given pages.
imageusage: Find all pages that use the given image title.
iwbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given interwiki link.
langbacklinks: Find all pages that link to the given language link.
links: Returns all links from the given pages.
linkshere: Find all pages that link to the given pages.
pageswithprop: List all pages using a given page property.
prefixsearch: Perform a prefix search for page titles.
protectedtitles: List all titles protected from creation.
querypage: Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.
random: Get a set of random pages.
recentchanges: Enumerate recent changes.
redirects: Returns all redirects to the given pages.
revisions: Get revision information.
search: Perform a full text search.
templates: Returns all pages transcluded on the given pages.
transcludedin: Find all pages that transclude the given pages.
watchlist: Get recent changes to pages in the current user's watchlist.
watchlistraw: Get all pages on the current user's watchlist.

redirects

Automatically resolve redirects in titles, pageids, and revids, and in pages returned by generator.

Type: boolean (details)

converttitles

Type: boolean (details)

token

A "watch" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

This parameter is required.

Examples:

Watch the page Main Page.: api.php?action=watch&titles=Main_Page&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Unwatch the page Main Page.: api.php?action=watch&titles=Main_Page&unwatch=&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Watch the first few pages in the main namespace.: api.php?action=watch&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]

action=webapp-manifest

(main | webapp-manifest)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MobileFrontend
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns a webapp manifest.

format=json

(main | json)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Output data in JSON format.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Data_formats

Parameters:

callback

If specified, wraps the output into a given function call. For safety, all user-specific data will be restricted.

utf8

If specified, encodes most (but not all) non-ASCII characters as UTF-8 instead of replacing them with hexadecimal escape sequences. Default when formatversion is not 1.

Type: boolean (details)

ascii

If specified, encodes all non-ASCII using hexadecimal escape sequences. Default when formatversion is 1.

Type: boolean (details)

formatversion

Output formatting:

1: Backwards-compatible format (XML-style booleans, * keys for content nodes, etc.).
2: Modern format.
latest: Use the latest format (currently 2), may change without warning.

One of the following values: 1, 2, latest

Default: 1

Example:

Return the query result in the JSON format.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&format=json [open in sandbox]

format=jsonfm

(main | jsonfm)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Output data in JSON format (pretty-print in HTML).

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Data_formats

Parameters:

wrappedhtml

Return the pretty-printed HTML and associated ResourceLoader modules as a JSON object.

Type: boolean (details)

callback

If specified, wraps the output into a given function call. For safety, all user-specific data will be restricted.

utf8

If specified, encodes most (but not all) non-ASCII characters as UTF-8 instead of replacing them with hexadecimal escape sequences. Default when formatversion is not 1.

Type: boolean (details)

ascii

If specified, encodes all non-ASCII using hexadecimal escape sequences. Default when formatversion is 1.

Type: boolean (details)

formatversion

Output formatting:

1: Backwards-compatible format (XML-style booleans, * keys for content nodes, etc.).
2: Modern format.
latest: Use the latest format (currently 2), may change without warning.

One of the following values: 1, 2, latest

Default: 1

Example:

Return the query result in the JSON format.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&format=jsonfm [open in sandbox]

format=none

(main | none)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Output nothing.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Data_formats

Example:

Return the query result in the NONE format.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&format=none [open in sandbox]

format=php

(main | php)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Output data in serialized PHP format.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Data_formats

Parameter:

formatversion

Output formatting:

1: Backwards-compatible format (XML-style booleans, * keys for content nodes, etc.).
2: Modern format.
latest: Use the latest format (currently 2), may change without warning.

One of the following values: 1, 2, latest

Default: 1

Example:

Return the query result in the PHP format.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&format=php [open in sandbox]

format=phpfm

(main | phpfm)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Output data in serialized PHP format (pretty-print in HTML).

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Data_formats

Parameters:

wrappedhtml

Return the pretty-printed HTML and associated ResourceLoader modules as a JSON object.

Type: boolean (details)

formatversion

Output formatting:

1: Backwards-compatible format (XML-style booleans, * keys for content nodes, etc.).
2: Modern format.
latest: Use the latest format (currently 2), may change without warning.

One of the following values: 1, 2, latest

Default: 1

Example:

Return the query result in the PHP format.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&format=phpfm [open in sandbox]

format=rawfm

(main | rawfm)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Output data, including debugging elements, in JSON format (pretty-print in HTML).

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Data_formats

Parameter:

wrappedhtml: Return the pretty-printed HTML and associated ResourceLoader modules as a JSON object.; Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Return the query result in the RAW format.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&format=rawfm [open in sandbox]

format=xml

(main | xml)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Output data in XML format.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Data_formats

Parameters:

xslt: If specified, adds the named page as an XSL stylesheet. The value must be a title in the MediaWiki namespace ending in .xsl.
includexmlnamespace: If specified, adds an XML namespace.; Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Return the query result in the XML format.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&format=xml [open in sandbox]

format=xmlfm

(main | xmlfm)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Output data in XML format (pretty-print in HTML).

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Data_formats

Parameters:

wrappedhtml: Return the pretty-printed HTML and associated ResourceLoader modules as a JSON object.; Type: boolean (details)
xslt: If specified, adds the named page as an XSL stylesheet. The value must be a title in the MediaWiki namespace ending in .xsl.
includexmlnamespace: If specified, adds an XML namespace.; Type: boolean (details)

Example:

Return the query result in the XML format.: api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces&format=xmlfm [open in sandbox]

Data types

Input to MediaWiki should be NFC-normalized UTF-8. MediaWiki may attempt to convert other input, but this may cause some operations (such as edits with MD5 checks) to fail.

Parameters that take multiple values are normally submitted with the values separated using the pipe character, e.g. param=value1|value2 or param=value1%7Cvalue2. If a value must contain the pipe character, use U+001F (Unit Separator) as the separator and prefix the value with U+001F, e.g. param=%1Fvalue1%1Fvalue2.

Some parameter types in API requests need further explanation:

boolean: Boolean parameters work like HTML checkboxes: if the parameter is specified, regardless of value, it is considered true. For a false value, omit the parameter entirely.
expiry: Expiry values be relative (e.g. 5 months or 2 weeks) or absolute (e.g. 2014-09-18T12:34:56Z). For no expiry, use infinite, indefinite, infinity or never.
timestamp: Timestamps may be specified in several formats, see the Timestamp library input formats documented on mediawiki.org for details. ISO 8601 date and time is recommended: 2001-01-15T14:56:00Z. Additionally, the string now may be used to specify the current timestamp.

Templated parameters

Templated parameters support cases where an API module needs a value for each value of some other parameter. For example, if there were an API module to request fruit, it might have a parameter fruits to specify which fruits are being requested and a templated parameter {fruit}-quantity to specify how many of each fruit to request. An API client that wants 1 apple, 5 bananas, and 20 strawberries could then make a request like fruits=apples|bananas|strawberries&apples-quantity=1&bananas-quantity=5&strawberries-quantity=20.

Credits

API developers:

Yuri Astrakhan (creator, lead developer Sep 2006–Sep 2007)
Roan Kattouw (lead developer Sep 2007–2009)
Victor Vasiliev
Bryan Tong Minh
Sam Reed
Brad Jorsch (lead developer 2013–present)

Please send your comments, suggestions and questions to mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org or file a bug report at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/.

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action=block

action=changeauthenticationdata (changeauth)

action=changecontentmodel

action=checktoken

action=clearhasmsg

action=clientlogin (login)

action=compare

action=createaccount (create)

action=cspreport

action=delete

action=edit

action=emailuser

action=expandtemplates

action=feedcontributions

action=feedrecentchanges

action=feedwatchlist

action=filerevert

action=help

action=imagerotate

action=import

action=linkaccount (link)

action=login (lg)

action=logout

action=managetags

action=mergehistory

action=mobileview

action=move

action=opensearch

action=options

action=paraminfo

action=parse

action=patrol

action=protect

action=purge

action=query

prop=categories (cl)

prop=categoryinfo (ci)

prop=contributors (pc)

prop=deletedrevisions (drv)

prop=duplicatefiles (df)

prop=extlinks (el)

prop=fileusage (fu)

prop=imageinfo (ii)

prop=images (im)

prop=info (in)

prop=iwlinks (iw)

prop=langlinks (ll)

prop=links (pl)

prop=linkshere (lh)

prop=pageprops (pp)

prop=redirects (rd)

prop=revisions (rv)

prop=stashimageinfo (sii)

prop=templates (tl)

prop=transcludedin (ti)

list=allcategories (ac)

list=alldeletedrevisions (adr)

list=allfileusages (af)

list=allimages (ai)

list=alllinks (al)

list=allpages (ap)

list=allredirects (ar)

list=allrevisions (arv)

list=alltransclusions (at)

list=allusers (au)

list=backlinks (bl)

list=blocks (bk)

list=categorymembers (cm)

list=deletedrevs (dr)

list=embeddedin (ei)

list=exturlusage (eu)

list=filearchive (fa)

list=imageusage (iu)

list=iwbacklinks (iwbl)

list=langbacklinks (lbl)

list=logevents (le)

list=mystashedfiles (msf)

list=pagepropnames (ppn)