MediaWiki API help

Which action to perform.

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.

acquiretempusername

Acquire a temporary user username and stash it in the current session, if temp account creation is enabled and the current user is logged out. If a name has already been stashed, returns the same name.

antispoof

Check a username against AntiSpoof's normalisation checks.

block

Block a user.

centralauthtoken

Fetch a centralauthtoken for making an authenticated request to an attached wiki.

centralnoticecdncacheupdatebanner

Request the purge of banner content stored in the CDN (front-end) cache for anonymous users, for the requested banner and language

centralnoticechoicedata

Get data needed to choose a banner for a given project and language

centralnoticequerycampaign

Get all configuration settings for a campaign.

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.

cirrus-config-dump

Dump of CirrusSearch configuration.

cirrus-mapping-dump

Dump of CirrusSearch mapping for this wiki.

cirrus-profiles-dump

Dump of CirrusSearch profiles for this wiki.

cirrus-settings-dump

Dump of CirrusSearch settings for this wiki.

clearhasmsg

Clears the hasmsg flag for the current user.

clientlogin

Log in to the wiki using the interactive flow.

compare

Get the difference between two pages.

createaccount

Create a new user account.

createlocalaccount

Forcibly create a local account. The central account must exist.

delete

Delete a page.

deleteglobalaccount

Delete a global user.

discussiontoolsedit

Post a message on a discussion page.

discussiontoolsfindcomment

Find a comment by its ID or name.

discussiontoolsgetsubscriptions

Get the subscription statuses of given topics.

discussiontoolssubscribe

Subscribe (or unsubscribe) to receive notifications about a topic.

discussiontoolsthank

Send a public thank-you notification for a comment.

echocreateevent

Manually trigger a notification to a user

echomarkread

Mark notifications as read for the current user.

echomarkseen

Mark notifications as seen for the current user.

echomute

Mute or unmute notifications from certain users or pages.

edit

Create and edit pages.

editmassmessagelist

Edit a mass message delivery list.

emailuser

Email a user.

expandtemplates

Expands all templates within wikitext.

featuredfeed

Returns a featured content feed.

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.

globalblock

Globally block or unblock a user.

globalpreferenceoverrides

Change local overrides for global preferences for the current user.

globalpreferences

Change global preferences of the current user.

globaluserrights

Add/remove a user to/from global groups.

help

Display help for the specified modules.

imagerotate

This module has been disabled.

import

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

jsonconfig

Allows direct access to JsonConfig subsystem.

languagesearch

Search for language names in any script.

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.

massmessage

Send a message to a list of pages.

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.

setglobalaccountstatus

Hide or lock (or unhide or unlock) a global user account.

setnotificationtimestamp

Update the notification timestamp for watched pages.

setpagelanguage

Change the language of a page.

shortenurl

Shorten a long URL into a shorter one.

sitematrix

Get Wikimedia sites list.

spamblacklist

Validate one or more URLs against the spam block list.

streamconfigs

Exposes event stream config. Returns only format=json with formatversion=2.

strikevote

Allows admins to strike or unstrike a vote.

tag

Add or remove change tags from individual revisions or log entries.

templatedata

Fetch data stored by the TemplateData extension.

thank

Send a thank-you notification to an editor.

titleblacklist

Validate a page title, filename, or username against the TitleBlacklist.

torblock

Check if an IP address is blocked as a Tor exit node.

transcodereset

Users with the 'transcode-reset' right can reset and re-run a transcode job.

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.

webapp-manifest

Returns a webapp manifest.

webauthn

API Module to communicate between server and client during registration/authentication process.

bouncehandler

Internal. Receive a bounce email and process it to handle the failing recipient.

categorytree

Internal. Internal module for the CategoryTree extension.

cirrus-check-sanity

Internal. Reports on the correctness of a range of page ids in the search index

collection

Internal. API module for performing various operations on a wiki user's collection.

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.

discussiontoolscompare

Internal. Get information about comment changes between two page revisions.

discussiontoolspageinfo

Internal. Returns metadata required to initialize the discussion tools.

discussiontoolspreview

Internal. Preview a message on a discussion page.

editcheckreferenceurl

Internal. Check the status of a URL for use as a reference.

fancycaptchareload

Internal. Get a new FancyCaptcha.

jsondata

Internal. Retrieve localized JSON data.

oathvalidate

Internal. Validate a two-factor authentication (OATH) token.

parser-migration

Internal. Parse a page with two different parser configurations.

readinglists

Internal. Reading list write operations.

sanitize-mapdata

Internal. Performs data validation for Kartographer extension

scribunto-console

Internal. Internal module for servicing XHR requests from the Scribunto console.

securepollauth

Internal. Allows a remote wiki to authenticate users before granting access to vote in the election.

stashedit

Internal. Prepare an edit in shared cache.

timedtext

Internal. Provides timed text content for usage by <track> elements

ulslocalization

Internal. Get the localization of ULS in the given language.

ulssetlang

Internal. Update user's preferred interface language.

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).

wikimediaeventsblockededit

Internal. Log information about blocked edit attempts

The format of the output.

json

Output data in JSON format.

jsonfm

Output data in JSON format (pretty-print in HTML).

none

Output nothing.

php

Output data in serialized PHP format.

phpfm

Output data in serialized PHP format (pretty-print in HTML).

rawfm

Output data, including debugging elements, in JSON format (pretty-print in HTML).

xml

Output data in XML format.

xmlfm

Output data in XML format (pretty-print in HTML).

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 (including possibly as a temporary user) 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&siprop=languages returns a list of language codes. You can specify user to use the current user's language preference or 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

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&siprop=languages returns a list of language codes. Specify content to use this wiki's content language or uselang to use the same value as the uselang parameter.

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

When accessing the API using a cross-domain AJAX request (CORS), use this to authenticate as the current SUL user. Use action=centralauthtoken on this wiki to retrieve the token, before making the CORS request. Each token may only be used once, and expires after 10 seconds. This should be included in any pre-flight request, and therefore should be included in the request URI (not the POST body).