Wikipedia / MediaWiki Page content API
page content in different formats
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Page content API is one of 33 APIs that Wikipedia / MediaWiki publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Page content. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and pricing.
This API exposes 14 operations across 14 paths, and defines 10 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.45.
Requests are made against 5 base URLs: https://en.wikipedia.org/w, https://{lang}.wikipedia.org/w, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w, https://www.wikidata.org/w, https://www.mediawiki.org/w.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Page content API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (BearerAuth).
An API key is passed in the cookie as {wiki}wikiUserID (CookieAuth).
BearerAuth— OAuth 2.0 bearer token from meta.wikimedia.orgCookieAuth— Session cookie obtained via action=login or action=clientlogin
Paths & Operations 14
Across 14 paths, the API surfaces 14 operations — 14 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
page content in different formats
Schemas 10
The contract defines 10 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are summary (13 properties), revisionInfo (12 properties), media_item (6 properties), problem (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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