Wikipedia / MediaWiki snapshots API
Snapshot API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki snapshots 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 snapshots. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and pricing.
This API exposes 12 operations across 6 paths, and defines 7 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 snapshots 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 12
Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 12 operations — 6 GET, 2 HEAD, 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Snapshot API
Schemas 7
The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are snapshot (8 properties), project (5 properties), language (4 properties), size (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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