MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=query
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
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.
- prop
Which properties to get for the queried pages.
- Values (separate with |): categories, categoryinfo, contributors, deletedrevisions, duplicatefiles, extlinks, fileusage, imageinfo, images, info, iwlinks, langlinks, links, linkshere, pageprops, redirects, references, revisions, stashimageinfo, templates, transcludedin
- list
Which lists to get.
- Values (separate with |): allcategories, alldeletedrevisions, allfileusages, allimages, alllinks, allpages, allredirects, allrevisions, alltransclusions, allusers, backlinks, blocks, categorymembers, deletedrevs, embeddedin, exturlusage, filearchive, imageusage, iwbacklinks, langbacklinks, logevents, mystashedfiles, pagepropnames, pageswithprop, prefixsearch, protectedtitles, querypage, random, recentchanges, search, tags, usercontribs, users, watchlist, watchlistraw
- meta
Which metadata to get.
- Values (separate with |): allmessages, authmanagerinfo, filerepoinfo, 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 export.
- Type: boolean (details)
- 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- pageids
A list of page IDs to work on.
- Type: list of integers
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- revids
A list of revision IDs to work on.
- Type: list of integers
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- 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.
- 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 gan, iu, kk, ku, shi, sr, tg, uz, zh.
- Type: boolean (details)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all categories the pages belong to.
- 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 |): sortkey, timestamp, hidden
- clshow
Which kind of categories to show.
- Values (separate with |): hidden, !hidden
- cllimit
How many categories to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- cldir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns information about the given categories.
- cicontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get the list of logged-in contributors and the count of anonymous contributors to a page.
- pcgroup
Only include users in the given groups. Does not include implicit or auto-promoted groups like *, user, or autoconfirmed.
- Values (separate with |): bot, sysop, bureaucrat
- pcexcludegroup
Exclude users in the given groups. Does not include implicit or auto-promoted groups like *, user, or autoconfirmed.
- Values (separate with |): bot, sysop, bureaucrat
- 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 |): apihighlimits, applychangetags, autoconfirmed, autocreateaccount, autopatrol, bigdelete, block, blockemail, bot, browsearchive, changetags, createaccount, createpage, createtalk, delete, deletedhistory, deletedtext, deletelogentry, deleterevision, edit, editcontentmodel, editinterface, editprotected, editmyoptions, editmyprivateinfo, editmyusercss, editmyuserjs, editmywatchlist, editsemiprotected, editusercssjs, editusercss, edituserjs, hideuser, import, importupload, ipblock-exempt, managechangetags, markbotedits, mergehistory, minoredit, move, movefile, move-categorypages, move-rootuserpages, move-subpages, nominornewtalk, noratelimit, override-export-depth, pagelang, passwordreset, patrol, patrolmarks, protect, purge, read, reupload, reupload-own, reupload-shared, rollback, sendemail, siteadmin, suppressionlog, suppressredirect, suppressrevision, unblockself, undelete, unwatchedpages, upload, upload_by_url, userrights, userrights-interwiki, viewmyprivateinfo, viewmywatchlist, viewsuppressed, writeapi, nuke, renameuser, spamblacklistlog, tboverride, tboverride-account, titleblacklistlog, skipcaptcha
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- 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 |): apihighlimits, applychangetags, autoconfirmed, autocreateaccount, autopatrol, bigdelete, block, blockemail, bot, browsearchive, changetags, createaccount, createpage, createtalk, delete, deletedhistory, deletedtext, deletelogentry, deleterevision, edit, editcontentmodel, editinterface, editprotected, editmyoptions, editmyprivateinfo, editmyusercss, editmyuserjs, editmywatchlist, editsemiprotected, editusercssjs, editusercss, edituserjs, hideuser, import, importupload, ipblock-exempt, managechangetags, markbotedits, mergehistory, minoredit, move, movefile, move-categorypages, move-rootuserpages, move-subpages, nominornewtalk, noratelimit, override-export-depth, pagelang, passwordreset, patrol, patrolmarks, protect, purge, read, reupload, reupload-own, reupload-shared, rollback, sendemail, siteadmin, suppressionlog, suppressredirect, suppressrevision, unblockself, undelete, unwatchedpages, upload, upload_by_url, userrights, userrights-interwiki, viewmyprivateinfo, viewmywatchlist, viewsuppressed, writeapi, nuke, renameuser, spamblacklistlog, tboverride, tboverride-account, titleblacklistlog, skipcaptcha
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- pclimit
How many contributors to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- pccontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- Show contributors to the page Main Page.
- api.php?action=query&prop=contributors&titles=Main_Page [open in sandbox]
prop=deletedrevisions (drv)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
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.
- 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.
- userid
- User ID of the revision creator.
- size
- Length (bytes) of the revision.
- sha1
- SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision.
- contentmodel
- Content model ID of the revision.
- comment
- Comment by the user for the revision.
- parsedcomment
- Parsed comment by the user for the revision.
- content
- Text of the revision.
- tags
- Tags for the revision.
- parsetree
- The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model
wikitext
).
- Values (separate with |): ids, flags, timestamp, user, userid, size, sha1, contentmodel, comment, parsedcomment, content, tags, parsetree
- Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user
- drvlimit
Limit how many revisions will be returned.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- drvexpandtemplates
Expand templates in revision content (requires drvprop=content).
- Type: boolean (details)
- drvgeneratexml
- Deprecated.
Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires drvprop=content; replaced by drvprop=parsetree).
- Type: boolean (details)
- drvparse
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
Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.
- drvdifftotext
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
Perform a pre-save transform on the text before diffing it. Only valid when used with drvdifftotext.
- Type: boolean (details)
- drvcontentformat
Serialization format used for drvdifftotext and expected for output of content.
- One of the following values: text/x-wiki, text/javascript, application/json, text/css, text/plain
- 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 name
- drvexcludeuser
Don't list revisions by this user.
- Type: user name
- drvcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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&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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all files that are duplicates of the given files based on hash values.
- dflimit
How many duplicate files to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns all external URLs (not interwikis) from the given pages.
- ellimit
How many links to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- eloffset
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- Type: integer
- 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)
- Get a list of external links on Main Page.
- api.php?action=query&prop=extlinks&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
prop=fileusage (fu)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Find all pages that use the given files.
- 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 |): pageid, title, redirect
- Default: pageid|title|redirect
- funamespace
Only include pages in these namespaces.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- fushow
Show only items that meet these criteria:
- redirect
- Only show redirects.
- !redirect
- Only show non-redirects.
- Values (separate with |): redirect, !redirect
- fulimit
How many to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- fucontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns file information and upload history.
- iiprop
Which file information to get:
- timestamp
- Adds timestamp for the uploaded version.
- user
- Adds the user who uploaded each file version.
- userid
- Add the ID of the user that uploaded each file version.
- comment
- Comment on the version.
- parsedcomment
- Parse the comment on the version.
- canonicaltitle
- Adds the canonical title of the file.
- url
- Gives URL to the file and the description page.
- 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.
- mime
- Adds MIME type of the file.
- thumbmime
- Adds MIME type of the image thumbnail (requires url and param iiurlwidth).
- mediatype
- Adds the media type of the file.
- metadata
- Lists Exif metadata for the version of the file.
- commonmetadata
- Lists file format generic metadata for the version of the file.
- extmetadata
- Lists formatted metadata combined from multiple sources. Results are HTML formatted.
- archivename
- Adds the filename of the archive version for non-latest versions.
- bitdepth
- Adds the bit depth of the version.
- uploadwarning
- Used by the Special:Upload page to get information about an existing file. Not intended for use outside MediaWiki core.
- Values (separate with |): timestamp, user, userid, comment, parsedcomment, canonicaltitle, url, size, dimensions, sha1, mime, thumbmime, mediatype, metadata, commonmetadata, extmetadata, archivename, bitdepth, uploadwarning
- Default: timestamp|user
- iilimit
How many file revisions to return per file.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- iiurlparam
A handler specific parameter string. For example, PDFs might use page15-100px. iiurlwidth must be used and be consistent with iiurlparam.
- Default: (empty)
- iicontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- iilocalonly
Look only for files in the local repository.
- Type: boolean (details)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns all files contained on the given pages.
- imlimit
How many files to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- imdir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get basic page information.
- 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
- Whether the user can read this page.
- preload
- Gives the text returned by EditFormPreloadText.
- displaytitle
- Gives the manner in which the page title is actually displayed.
- Values (separate with |): protection, talkid, watched, watchers, visitingwatchers, notificationtimestamp, subjectid, url, readable, preload, displaytitle
- intestactions
Test whether the current user can perform certain actions on the page.
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- intoken
- Deprecated.
Use action=query&meta=tokens instead.
- Values (separate with |): edit, delete, protect, move, block, unblock, email, import, watch
- incontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns all interwiki links from the given pages.
- iwprop
Which additional properties to get for each interlanguage link:
- url
- Adds the full URL.
- Values (separate with |): 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.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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)
- Get interwiki links from the page Main Page.
- api.php?action=query&prop=iwlinks&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
prop=langlinks (ll)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns all interlanguage links from the given pages.
- 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 |): url, langname, autonym
- 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.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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)
- Get interlanguage links from the page Main Page.
- api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&titles=Main%20Page&redirects= [open in sandbox]
prop=links (pl)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns all links from the given pages.
- plnamespace
Show links in these namespaces only.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- pllimit
How many links to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- pldir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Find all pages that link to the given pages.
- 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 |): pageid, title, redirect
- Default: pageid|title|redirect
- lhnamespace
Only include pages in these namespaces.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- lhshow
Show only items that meet these criteria:
- redirect
- Only show redirects.
- !redirect
- Only show non-redirects.
- Values (separate with |): redirect, !redirect
- lhlimit
How many to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- lhcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get various page properties defined in the page content.
- 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns all redirects to the given pages.
- 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 |): pageid, title, fragment
- Default: pageid|title
- rdnamespace
Only include pages in these namespaces.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- 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 |): fragment, !fragment
- rdlimit
How many redirects to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- rdcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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=references (rf)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: Cite
- License: GPL-2.0+
Return a data representation of references associated with the given pages.
- rfcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- References associated with Albert Einstein.
- api.php?action=query&prop=references&titles=Albert%20Einstein [open in sandbox]
prop=revisions (rv)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
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.
- 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.
- userid
- User ID of the revision creator.
- size
- Length (bytes) of the revision.
- sha1
- SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision.
- contentmodel
- Content model ID of the revision.
- comment
- Comment by the user for the revision.
- parsedcomment
- Parsed comment by the user for the revision.
- content
- Text of the revision.
- tags
- Tags for the revision.
- parsetree
- The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model
wikitext
).
- Values (separate with |): ids, flags, timestamp, user, userid, size, sha1, contentmodel, comment, parsedcomment, content, tags, parsetree
- Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user
- rvlimit
Limit how many revisions will be returned.
- May only be used with a single page (mode #2).
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- rvexpandtemplates
Expand templates in revision content (requires rvprop=content).
- Type: boolean (details)
- rvgeneratexml
- Deprecated.
Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires rvprop=content; replaced by rvprop=parsetree).
- Type: boolean (details)
- rvparse
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
Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.
- rvdifftotext
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
Perform a pre-save transform on the text before diffing it. Only valid when used with rvdifftotext.
- Type: boolean (details)
- rvcontentformat
Serialization format used for rvdifftotext and expected for output of content.
- One of the following values: text/x-wiki, text/javascript, application/json, text/css, text/plain
- rvstartid
From which revision ID to start enumeration.
- May only be used with a single page (mode #2).
- Type: integer
- rvendid
Stop revision enumeration on this revision ID.
- 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 name
- rvexcludeuser
Exclude revisions made by user.
- May only be used with a single page (mode #2).
- Type: user name
- rvtag
Only list revisions tagged with this tag.
- rvtoken
- Deprecated.
Which tokens to obtain for each revision.
- Values (separate with |): rollback
- rvcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- Get data with content for the last revision of titles API and Main Page.
- api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=API|Main%20Page&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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns file information for stashed files.
- siifilekey
Key that identifies a previous upload that was stashed temporarily.
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- siisessionkey
- Deprecated.
Alias for siifilekey, for backward compatibility.
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- siiprop
Which file information to get:
- timestamp
- Adds timestamp for the uploaded version.
- canonicaltitle
- Adds the canonical title of the file.
- url
- Gives URL to the file and the description page.
- 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.
- mime
- Adds MIME type of the file.
- thumbmime
- Adds MIME type of the image thumbnail (requires url and param siiurlwidth).
- metadata
- Lists Exif metadata for the version of the file.
- commonmetadata
- Lists file format generic metadata for the version of the file.
- extmetadata
- Lists formatted metadata combined from multiple sources. Results are HTML formatted.
- bitdepth
- Adds the bit depth of the version.
- Values (separate with |): timestamp, canonicaltitle, url, size, dimensions, sha1, mime, thumbmime, metadata, commonmetadata, extmetadata, bitdepth
- 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)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Returns all pages transcluded on the given pages.
- tlnamespace
Show templates in this namespaces only.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- tllimit
How many templates to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- tldir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Find all pages that transclude the given pages.
- 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 |): pageid, title, redirect
- Default: pageid|title|redirect
- tinamespace
Only include pages in these namespaces.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- tishow
Show only items that meet these criteria:
- redirect
- Only show redirects.
- !redirect
- Only show non-redirects.
- Values (separate with |): redirect, !redirect
- tilimit
How many to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- ticontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Enumerate all categories.
- 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.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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 |): size, hidden
- Default: (empty)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all deleted revisions by a user or in a namespace.
- 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.
- userid
- User ID of the revision creator.
- size
- Length (bytes) of the revision.
- sha1
- SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision.
- contentmodel
- Content model ID of the revision.
- comment
- Comment by the user for the revision.
- parsedcomment
- Parsed comment by the user for the revision.
- content
- Text of the revision.
- tags
- Tags for the revision.
- parsetree
- The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model
wikitext
).
- Values (separate with |): ids, flags, timestamp, user, userid, size, sha1, contentmodel, comment, parsedcomment, content, tags, parsetree
- Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user
- adrlimit
Limit how many revisions will be returned.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- adrexpandtemplates
Expand templates in revision content (requires adrprop=content).
- Type: boolean (details)
- adrgeneratexml
- Deprecated.
Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires adrprop=content; replaced by adrprop=parsetree).
- Type: boolean (details)
- adrparse
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
Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.
- adrdifftotext
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
Perform a pre-save transform on the text before diffing it. Only valid when used with adrdifftotext.
- Type: boolean (details)
- adrcontentformat
Serialization format used for adrdifftotext and expected for output of content.
- One of the following values: text/x-wiki, text/javascript, application/json, text/css, text/plain
- adruser
Only list revisions by this user.
- Type: user name
- adrnamespace
Only list pages in this namespace.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- 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 name
- 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)
- 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&adrlimit=50 [open in sandbox]
list=allfileusages (af)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all file usages, including non-existing.
- 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 |): ids, title
- Default: title
- aflimit
How many total items to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- afdir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Enumerate all images sequentially.
- 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.
- userid
- Add the ID of the user that uploaded each file version.
- comment
- Comment on the version.
- parsedcomment
- Parse the comment on the version.
- canonicaltitle
- Adds the canonical title of the file.
- url
- Gives URL to the file and the description page.
- 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.
- mime
- Adds MIME type of the file.
- mediatype
- Adds the media type of the file.
- metadata
- Lists Exif metadata for the version of the file.
- commonmetadata
- Lists file format generic metadata for the version of the file.
- extmetadata
- Lists formatted metadata combined from multiple sources. Results are HTML formatted.
- bitdepth
- Adds the bit depth of the version.
- Values (separate with |): timestamp, user, userid, comment, parsedcomment, canonicaltitle, url, size, dimensions, sha1, mime, mediatype, metadata, commonmetadata, extmetadata, bitdepth
- 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 name
- 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- ailimit
How many images in total to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Enumerate all links that point to a given namespace.
- 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 |): ids, title
- Default: title
- alnamespace
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
- allimit
How many total items to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- aldir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace.
- 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, redirects, nonredirects
- 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 |): edit, move, upload
- apprlevel
Filter protections based on protection level (must be used with apprtype= parameter).
- Values (separate with |): Can be empty, or autoconfirmed, sysop
- apprfiltercascade
Filter protections based on cascadingness (ignored when apprtype isn't set).
- One of the following values: cascading, noncascading, all
- Default: all
- aplimit
How many total pages to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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: withlanglinks, withoutlanglinks, all
- 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: indefinite, definite, all
- Default: all
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all redirects to a namespace.
- 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 |): ids, title, fragment, interwiki
- Default: title
- arnamespace
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
- arlimit
How many total items to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- ardir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all revisions.
- 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.
- userid
- User ID of the revision creator.
- size
- Length (bytes) of the revision.
- sha1
- SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision.
- contentmodel
- Content model ID of the revision.
- comment
- Comment by the user for the revision.
- parsedcomment
- Parsed comment by the user for the revision.
- content
- Text of the revision.
- tags
- Tags for the revision.
- parsetree
- The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model
wikitext
).
- Values (separate with |): ids, flags, timestamp, user, userid, size, sha1, contentmodel, comment, parsedcomment, content, tags, parsetree
- Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user
- arvlimit
Limit how many revisions will be returned.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- arvexpandtemplates
Expand templates in revision content (requires arvprop=content).
- Type: boolean (details)
- arvgeneratexml
- Deprecated.
Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires arvprop=content; replaced by arvprop=parsetree).
- Type: boolean (details)
- arvparse
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
Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.
- arvdifftotext
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
Perform a pre-save transform on the text before diffing it. Only valid when used with arvdifftotext.
- Type: boolean (details)
- arvcontentformat
Serialization format used for arvdifftotext and expected for output of content.
- One of the following values: text/x-wiki, text/javascript, application/json, text/css, text/plain
- arvuser
Only list revisions by this user.
- Type: user name
- arvnamespace
Only list pages in this namespace.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- 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 name
- 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)
- 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 the main namespace.
- api.php?action=query&list=allrevisions&arvdir=newer&arvlimit=50 [open in sandbox]
list=alltransclusions (at)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all transclusions (pages embedded using {{x}}), including non-existing.
- 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 |): ids, title
- Default: title
- atnamespace
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: 10
- atlimit
How many total items to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- atdir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Enumerate all registered users.
- 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 |): bot, sysop, bureaucrat
- auexcludegroup
Exclude users in the given groups.
- Values (separate with |): bot, sysop, bureaucrat
- 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 |): apihighlimits, applychangetags, autoconfirmed, autocreateaccount, autopatrol, bigdelete, block, blockemail, bot, browsearchive, changetags, createaccount, createpage, createtalk, delete, deletedhistory, deletedtext, deletelogentry, deleterevision, edit, editcontentmodel, editinterface, editprotected, editmyoptions, editmyprivateinfo, editmyusercss, editmyuserjs, editmywatchlist, editsemiprotected, editusercssjs, editusercss, edituserjs, hideuser, import, importupload, ipblock-exempt, managechangetags, markbotedits, mergehistory, minoredit, move, movefile, move-categorypages, move-rootuserpages, move-subpages, nominornewtalk, noratelimit, override-export-depth, pagelang, passwordreset, patrol, patrolmarks, protect, purge, read, reupload, reupload-own, reupload-shared, rollback, sendemail, siteadmin, suppressionlog, suppressredirect, suppressrevision, unblockself, undelete, unwatchedpages, upload, upload_by_url, userrights, userrights-interwiki, viewmyprivateinfo, viewmywatchlist, viewsuppressed, writeapi, nuke, renameuser, spamblacklistlog, tboverride, tboverride-account, titleblacklistlog, skipcaptcha
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- 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 |): blockinfo, groups, implicitgroups, rights, editcount, registration, centralids
- aulimit
How many total user names to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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.
- List users starting at Y.
- api.php?action=query&list=allusers&aufrom=Y [open in sandbox]
list=backlinks (bl)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Find all pages that link to the given page.
- 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 |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- 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, redirects, nonredirects
- 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).
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all blocked users and IP addresses.
- 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- bkusers
List of users to search for (optional).
- Type: list of user names
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- 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.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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.).
- Values (separate with |): id, user, userid, by, byid, timestamp, expiry, reason, range, flags
- Default: id|user|by|timestamp|expiry|reason|flags
- 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 |): account, !account, temp, !temp, ip, !ip, range, !range
- bkcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all pages in a given category.
- 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 |): ids, title, sortkey, sortkeyprefix, type, timestamp
- 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 |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- cmtype
Which type of category members to include. Ignored when cmsort=timestamp is set.
- Values (separate with |): page, subcat, file
- Default: page|subcat|file
- cmcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- cmlimit
The maximum number of pages to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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, desc, ascending, 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.
- 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)
- This module is deprecated.
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
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.
- 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 name
- drexcludeuser
Don't list revisions by this user.
- Type: user name
- 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 |): revid, parentid, user, userid, comment, parsedcomment, minor, len, sha1, content, token, tags
- Default: user|comment
- drlimit
The maximum amount of revisions to list.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- drcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Find all pages that embed (transclude) the given title.
- 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 |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- 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, redirects, nonredirects
- Default: all
- eilimit
How many total pages to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.
- 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 |): ids, title, url
- Default: ids|title|url
- euoffset
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- Type: integer
- 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 |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- eulimit
How many pages to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- euexpandurl
Expand protocol-relative URLs with the canonical protocol.
- Type: boolean (details)
list=filearchive (fa)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Enumerate all deleted files sequentially.
- 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 |): sha1, timestamp, user, size, dimensions, description, parseddescription, mime, mediatype, metadata, bitdepth, archivename
- Default: timestamp
- falimit
How many images to return in total.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- facontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- Show a list of all deleted files.
- api.php?action=query&list=filearchive [open in sandbox]
list=imageusage (iu)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Find all pages that use the given image title.
- 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 |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- 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, redirects, nonredirects
- 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).
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
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".
- 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.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- iwblprop
Which properties to get:
- iwprefix
- Adds the prefix of the interwiki.
- iwtitle
- Adds the title of the interwiki.
- Values (separate with |): iwprefix, iwtitle
- Default: (empty)
- iwbldir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
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.
- 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.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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 |): lllang, lltitle
- Default: (empty)
- lbldir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get events from logs.
- 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 |): ids, title, type, user, userid, timestamp, comment, parsedcomment, details, tags
- Default: ids|title|type|user|timestamp|comment|details
- letype
Filter log entries to only this type.
- One of the following values: Can be empty, or renameuser, spamblacklist, titleblacklist, block, protect, rights, delete, upload, move, import, patrol, merge, suppress, tag, managetags, contentmodel, newusers
- 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: renameuser/renameuser, spamblacklist/*, titleblacklist/*, block/block, block/reblock, block/unblock, contentmodel/change, contentmodel/new, delete/delete, 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, patrol/patrol, patrol/autopatrol, 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, newusers/newusers, newusers/create, newusers/create2, newusers/byemail, newusers/autocreate
- 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 name
- letitle
Filter entries to those related to a page.
- lenamespace
Filter entries to those in the given namespace.
- One of the following values: 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.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- lecontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- List recent log events.
- api.php?action=query&list=logevents [open in sandbox]
list=mystashedfiles (msf)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get a list of files in the current user's upload stash.
- 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 |): size, type
- Default: (empty)
- msflimit
How many files to get.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- msfcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all page property names in use on the wiki.
- ppncontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- ppnlimit
The maximum number of names to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- Get first 10 property names.
- api.php?action=query&list=pagepropnames [open in sandbox]
list=pageswithprop (pwp)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all pages using a given page property.
- 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 |): ids, title, value
- Default: ids|title
- pwpcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- pwplimit
The maximum number of pages to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- pwpdir
In which direction to sort.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
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.
- pssearch
Search string.
- This parameter is required.
- psnamespace
Namespaces to search.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- Default: 0
- pslimit
Maximum number of results to return.
- No more than 100 (200 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- psoffset
Number of results to skip.
- Type: integer
- Default: 0
- Search for page titles beginning with meaning.
- api.php?action=query&list=prefixsearch&pssearch=meaning [open in sandbox]
list=protectedtitles (pt)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List all titles protected from creation.
- ptnamespace
Only list titles in these namespaces.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- ptlevel
Only list titles with these protection levels.
- Values (separate with |): autoconfirmed, sysop
- ptlimit
How many total pages to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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 |): timestamp, user, userid, comment, parsedcomment, expiry, level
- Default: timestamp|level
- ptcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.
- 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, ListDuplicatedFiles, Listredirects, Lonelypages, Longpages, MediaStatistics, Mostcategories, Mostimages, Mostinterwikis, Mostlinkedcategories, Mostlinkedtemplates, Mostlinked, Mostrevisions, Fewestrevisions, Shortpages, Uncategorizedcategories, Uncategorizedpages, Uncategorizedimages, Uncategorizedtemplates, Unusedcategories, Unusedimages, Wantedcategories, Wantedfiles, Wantedpages, Wantedtemplates, Unwatchedpages, Unusedtemplates, Withoutinterwiki
- qpoffset
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- Type: integer
- Default: 0
- qplimit
Number of results to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
list=random (rn)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
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.
- rnnamespace
Return pages in these namespaces only.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- rnfilterredir
How to filter for redirects.
- One of the following values: all, redirects, nonredirects
- Default: nonredirects
- rnredirect
- Deprecated.
Use rnfilterredir=redirects instead.
- Type: boolean (details)
- rnlimit
Limit how many random pages will be returned.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 1
- rncontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Enumerate recent changes.
- 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 |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- rcuser
Only list changes by this user.
- Type: user name
- rcexcludeuser
Don't list changes by this user.
- Type: user name
- 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.
- userid
- Adds the user ID responsible for the edit.
- comment
- Adds the comment for the edit.
- parsedcomment
- Adds the parsed comment for the edit.
- 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.
- Values (separate with |): user, userid, comment, parsedcomment, flags, timestamp, title, ids, sizes, redirect, patrolled, loginfo, tags, sha1
- Default: title|timestamp|ids
- rctoken
- Deprecated.
Use action=query&meta=tokens instead.
- Values (separate with |): 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 |): minor, !minor, bot, !bot, anon, !anon, redirect, !redirect, patrolled, !patrolled, unpatrolled
- rclimit
How many total changes to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- rctype
Which types of changes to show.
- Values (separate with |): edit, new, log, external, categorize
- Default: edit|new|log|categorize
- rctoponly
Only list changes which are the latest revision.
- Type: boolean (details)
- 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)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Perform a full text search.
- 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 |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- Default: 0
- srwhat
Which type of search to perform.
- One of the following values: title, text, nearmatch
- srinfo
Which metadata to return.
- Values (separate with |): totalhits, suggestion, rewrittenquery
- 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 and ignored.
- hasrelated
- Deprecated and ignored.
- Values (separate with |): size, wordcount, timestamp, snippet, titlesnippet, redirecttitle, redirectsnippet, sectiontitle, sectionsnippet, isfilematch, categorysnippet, score, hasrelated
- Default: size|wordcount|timestamp|snippet
- sroffset
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- Type: integer
- Default: 0
- srlimit
How many total pages to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- 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 one its thinks gives better results, such as correcting spelling errors.
- Type: boolean (details)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
List change tags.
- tgcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- tglimit
The maximum number of tags to list.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- tgprop
Which properties to get:
- name
- Adds name of tag.
- 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 |): name, displayname, description, hitcount, defined, source, active
- Default: name
list=usercontribs (uc)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get all edits by a user.
- uclimit
The maximum number of contributions to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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.
- Type: list of user names
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- ucuserprefix
Retrieve contributions for all users whose names begin with this value. Overrides ucuser.
- 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 |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- 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.
- parsedcomment
- Adds the parsed comment of the edit.
- 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 |): ids, title, timestamp, comment, parsedcomment, size, sizediff, flags, patrolled, tags
- Default: ids|title|timestamp|comment|size|flags
- 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 |): minor, !minor, patrolled, !patrolled, top, !top, new, !new
- uctag
Only list revisions tagged with this tag.
- uctoponly
- Deprecated.
Only list changes which are the latest revision.
- Type: boolean (details)
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get information about a list of users.
- 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.
- 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 |): blockinfo, groups, implicitgroups, rights, editcount, registration, emailable, gender, centralids, cancreate
- 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.
- Type: list of user names
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- ustoken
- Deprecated.
Use action=query&meta=tokens instead.
- Values (separate with |): userrights
- Return information for user Example.
- api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Example&usprop=groups|editcount|gender [open in sandbox]
list=watchlist (wl)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get recent changes to pages in the current user's watchlist.
- 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 |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- wluser
Only list changes by this user.
- Type: user name
- wlexcludeuser
Don't list changes by this user.
- Type: user name
- 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.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- 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.
- userid
- Adds user ID of whoever made the edit.
- comment
- Adds comment of the edit.
- parsedcomment
- Adds parsed comment of the edit.
- 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.
- Values (separate with |): ids, title, flags, user, userid, comment, parsedcomment, timestamp, patrol, sizes, notificationtimestamp, loginfo
- 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 |): minor, !minor, bot, !bot, anon, !anon, patrolled, !patrolled, unread, !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 |): edit, new, log, external, categorize
- Default: edit|new|log|categorize
- wlowner
Used along with wltoken to access a different user's watchlist.
- Type: 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.
- 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 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get all pages on the current user's watchlist.
- wrcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- wrnamespace
Only list pages in the given namespaces.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- wrlimit
How many total results to return per request.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- wrprop
Which additional properties to get:
- changed
- Adds timestamp of when the user was last notified about the edit.
- Values (separate with |): changed
- wrshow
Only list items that meet these criteria.
- Values (separate with |): changed, !changed
- wrowner
Used along with wrtoken to access a different user's watchlist.
- Type: user name
- wrtoken
A security token (available in the user's preferences) to allow access to another user's watchlist.
- wrdir
In which direction to enumerate:
- newer
- List oldest first. Note: wrstart has to be before wrend.
- older
- List newest first (default). Note: wrstart has to be later than wrend.
- 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.
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Return messages from this site.
- ammessages
Which messages to output. * (default) means all messages.
- Separate values with |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- Default: *
- amprop
Which properties to get.
- Values (separate with |): 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 a MediaWiki: page. This lists all MediaWiki: 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 |. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- 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.
- Show messages starting with ipb-.
- api.php?action=query&meta=allmessages&refix=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)
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Retrieve information about the current authentication status.
- 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: login, login-continue, create, create-continue, link, link-continue, change, 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, wikitext, raw, none
- Default: wikitext
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Return meta information about image repositories configured on the wiki.
- friprop
Which repository properties to get (there may be more available on some wikis):
- apiurl
- URL to the repository API - helpful for getting image info from the host.
- name
- The key of the repository - used in e.g. $wgForeignFileRepos and imageinfo return values.
- displayname
- The human-readable name of the repository wiki.
- rooturl
- Root URL for image paths.
- local
- Whether that repository is the local one or not.
- Values (separate with |): name, displayname, rootUrl, local, url, thumbUrl, initialCapital, scriptDirUrl, scriptExtension, favicon, canUpload
- Default: name|displayname|rootUrl|local|url|thumbUrl|initialCapital|scriptDirUrl|scriptExtension|favicon|canUpload
- Get information about file repositories.
- api.php?action=query&meta=filerepoinfo&friprop=apiurl|name|displayname [open in sandbox]
meta=siteinfo (si)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Return general information about the site.
- 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).
- 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 |): general, namespaces, namespacealiases, specialpagealiases, magicwords, interwikimap, dbrepllag, statistics, usergroups, libraries, extensions, fileextensions, rightsinfo, restrictions, languages, skins, extensiontags, functionhooks, showhooks, variables, protocols, defaultoptions, uploaddialog
- 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.
- 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
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Gets tokens for data-modifying actions.
- type
Types of token to request.
- Values (separate with |): createaccount, csrf, login, patrol, rollback, userrights, watch
- Default: csrf
- 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)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get information about the current user.
- 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.
- 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.
- preferencestoken
- Deprecated. Get a token to change current user's preferences.
- editcount
- Adds the current user's edit count.
- ratelimits
- Lists all rate limits applying to the current user.
- 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.
- Values (separate with |): blockinfo, hasmsg, groups, implicitgroups, rights, changeablegroups, options, preferencestoken, editcount, ratelimits, email, realname, acceptlang, registrationdate, unreadcount, centralids
- uiattachedwiki
With uiprop=centralids, indicate whether the user is attached with the wiki identified by this ID.
- 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]