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Wikipedia / MediaWiki

Wikipedia / MediaWiki Pages API

Page metadata, HTML, source, create, update

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Wikipedia / MediaWiki Pages API is one of 28 APIs that Wikipedia / MediaWiki publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Pages. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 6 operations across 5 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1, https://{lang}.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1, https://api.wikimedia.org/core/v1/wikipedia/{lang}.

6 operations 5 paths 4 schemas 4 GET1 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Contact
Wikimedia Foundation
License
CC BY-SA 4.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Wikipedia / MediaWiki Pages API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (BearerAuth).

  • BearerAuth — OAuth 2.0 bearer token issued via api.wikimedia.org. Required for write operations.

Paths & Operations 6

Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 4 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Pages 6

Page metadata, HTML, source, create, update

GET
/page/{title}
MediaWiki Core REST Get Page Source and Metadata
getPage 2 params → 200404
PUT
/page/{title}
MediaWiki Core REST Update or Create a Page
updatePage 1 param body → 200404
GET
/page/{title}/bare
MediaWiki Core REST Get Page Metadata Without Content
getPageBare 1 param → 200404
GET
/page/{title}/html
MediaWiki Core REST Get Page as HTML
getPageHtml 1 param → 200
GET
/page/{title}/with_html
MediaWiki Core REST Get Page Metadata and HTML
getPageWithHtml 1 param → 200404
POST
/page
MediaWiki Core REST Create a New Wiki Page
createPage body → 201

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Page (9 properties), CreatePageRequest (5 properties), UpdatePageRequest (5 properties), Error (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

UpdatePageRequest
object
5 properties 3 required
CreatePageRequest
object
5 properties 3 required
Page
object
A MediaWiki page object.
9 properties
Error
object
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

wikipedia-pages-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
wikipedia:wikipedia-pages-api
Base URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
Docs
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
Provider
Wikipedia / MediaWiki
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