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Wikivoyage History API

Travel article revision history and edit statistics

Wikivoyage History API is one of 14 APIs that Wikivoyage publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include History. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.47.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://en.wikivoyage.org/w, https://{lang}.wikivoyage.org/w.

2 operations 2 paths 4 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.47
Base URL
https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/api.php
Authentication
HTTP Bearer, API Key
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Wikivoyage History API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (BearerAuth). An API key is passed in the cookie as wikivoyagewikiUserID (CookieAuth).

  • BearerAuth — OAuth 2.0 bearer token from meta.wikimedia.org
  • CookieAuth — Session cookie obtained via action=login or action=clientlogin

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

History 2

Travel article revision history and edit statistics

GET
/page/{title}/history
Wikivoyage Core REST Get Travel Article Revision History
getPageHistory 4 params → 200404
GET
/page/{title}/history/counts/{type}
Wikivoyage Core REST Get Edit Statistics for a Travel Article
getPageHistoryCounts 2 params → 200404

Schemas 4

The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Revision (10 properties), HistoryResponse (4 properties), Error (2 properties), EditCounts (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

EditCounts
object
2 properties
Revision
object
A travel article revision.
10 properties
Error
object
2 properties
HistoryResponse
object
4 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

wikivoyage-history-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Wikivoyage publishes across the network.

Wikivoyage Authentication API
Wikivoyage Edit API
Wikivoyage Files API
Wikivoyage Links API
Wikivoyage Meta API
Wikivoyage Pages API
Wikivoyage Parse API
Wikivoyage Patrol API
Wikivoyage Query API
Wikivoyage Revisions API
Wikivoyage Search API
Wikivoyage Transforms API