API sandbox

Use this page to experiment with the MediaWiki web service API. Refer to the API documentation for further details of API usage. Example: search for page titles matching a certain keyword. Select an action to see more examples. Note that, although this is a sandbox, actions you carry out on this page may modify the wiki.

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

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

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

Examples

Which action to perform. Expand

abusefiltercheckmatch: Check to see if an AbuseFilter matches a set of variables, an edit, or a logged AbuseFilter event.
abusefilterchecksyntax: Check syntax of an AbuseFilter filter.
abusefilterevalexpression: Evaluates an AbuseFilter expression.
abusefilterunblockautopromote: Unblocks a user from receiving autopromotions due to an abusefilter consequence.
abuselogprivatedetails: View private details of an AbuseLog entry.
block: Block a user.
changeauthenticationdata: Change authentication data for the current user.
changecontentmodel: Change the content model of a page
checktoken: Check the validity of a token from action=query&meta=tokens.
clearhasmsg: Clears the hasmsg flag for the current user.
clientlogin: Log in to the wiki using the interactive flow.
commentblock: The commentblock API allows blocking a user from the comment it originated from after filling out the following parameters: CommentID.
commentdelete: The commentdelete API allows deleting a comment after filling out the following parameters: CommentID.
commentlatestid: The commentlatestID API allows to retrieve latest comment ID after filling out the following parameters: pageID
commentlist: The commentlist API retrieves multiple comments and outputs them as a list after filling out the following parameters: pageID, order, pagerPage, and showForm.
commentsubmit: The commentsubmit API allows to submit/post a comment after filling out the following parameters: pageID, parentID, commentText.
commentvote: The commentvote API allows to vote on a comment after filling out the following parameters: commentID, voteValue.
compare: Get the difference between two pages.
createaccount: Create a new user account.
delete: Delete a page.
edit: Create and edit pages.
emailuser: Email a user.
embedvideo: Get generated video embed code for given parameters.
expandtemplates: Expands all templates within wikitext.
feedcontributions: Returns a user's contributions feed.
feedrecentchanges: Returns a recent changes feed.
feedwatchlist: Returns a watchlist feed.
filerevert: Revert a file to an old version.
help: Display help for the specified modules.
imagerotate: Rotate one or more images.
import: Import a page from another wiki, or from an XML file.
linkaccount: Link an account from a third-party provider to the current user.
login: Log in and get authentication cookies.
logout: Log out and clear session data.
managetags: Perform management tasks relating to change tags.
mergehistory: Merge page histories.
move: Move a page.
opensearch: Search the wiki using the OpenSearch protocol.
options: Change preferences of the current user.
paraminfo: Obtain information about API modules.
parse: Parses content and returns parser output.
patrol: Patrol a page or revision.
protect: Change the protection level of a page.
purge: Purge the cache for the given titles.
query: Fetch data from and about MediaWiki.
removeauthenticationdata: Remove authentication data for the current user.
resetpassword: Send a password reset email to a user.
revisiondelete: Delete and undelete revisions.
rollback: Undo the last edit to the page.
rsd: Export an RSD (Really Simple Discovery) schema.
setnotificationtimestamp: Update the notification timestamp for watched pages.
setpagelanguage: Change the language of a page.
smpuserprivacy: API module for setting the visibility ("privacy") of a profile field
smpuserprofiletype: Get a user's user page type or set your own user page type
socialprofile-delete-message: Delete a UserBoard message.
socialprofile-request-response: Responds to user relationship (friend/foe) requests.
socialprofile-send-message: Send a message to a user's UserBoard.
spamblacklist: Validate one or more URLs against the spam block list.
tag: Add or remove change tags from individual revisions or log entries.
templatedata: Fetch data stored by the TemplateData extension.
titleblacklist: Validate a page title, filename, or username against the TitleBlacklist.
unblock: Unblock a user.
undelete: Undelete revisions of a deleted page.
unlinkaccount: Remove a linked third-party account from the current user.
upload: Upload a file, or get the status of pending uploads.
userrights: Change a user's group membership.
validatepassword: Validate a password against the wiki's password policies.
watch: Add or remove pages from the current user's watchlist.
categorytree: Internal. Internal module for the CategoryTree extension.
cspreport: Internal. Used by browsers to report violations of the Content Security Policy. This module should never be used, except when used automatically by a CSP compliant web browser.
oathvalidate: Internal. Validate a two-factor authentication (OATH) token.
scribunto-console: Internal. Internal module for servicing XHR requests from the Scribunto console.
stashedit: Internal. Prepare an edit in shared cache.
visualeditor: Internal. Returns HTML5 for a page from the Parsoid service.
visualeditoredit: Internal. Save an HTML5 page to MediaWiki (converted to wikitext via the Parsoid service).

The format of the output. Expand

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

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

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

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

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

Verify the current user is the named user.

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

Include the hostname that served the request in the results.

Include the current timestamp in the result.

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

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

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

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

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

Variant of the language. Only works if the base language supports variant conversion.

Format to use for warning and error text output Expand

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

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

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

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