Wikivoyage Query API
Read-only data retrieval (action=query) — travel articles, revisions, links, search
Wikivoyage Query API is one of 14 APIs that Wikivoyage publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Query. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 2 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.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Wikivoyage Query 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.orgCookieAuth— Session cookie obtained via action=login or action=clientlogin
Paths & Operations 1
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Read-only data retrieval (action=query) — travel articles, revisions, links, search
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ActionResult (8 properties), ActionApiError (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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