Wikipedia / MediaWiki Reading lists API
Private lists of selected pages
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Reading lists 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 Reading lists. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and pricing.
This API exposes 13 operations across 10 paths, and defines 5 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 Reading lists 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 13
Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 13 operations — 2 DELETE, 4 GET, 6 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Private lists of selected pages
Schemas 5
The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are list_read (5 properties), list_entry_read (5 properties), problem (4 properties), list_entry_write (2 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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