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Wikivoyage Revisions API

Individual revision retrieval and comparison

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

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

This API exposes 6 operations across 6 paths, and defines 3 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.

6 operations 6 paths 3 schemas 5 GET1 POST

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 Revisions 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 6

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

Revisions 6

Individual revision retrieval and comparison

GET
/revision/{id}
Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision with HTML Link
getRevision 1 param → 200404
GET
/revision/{id}/bare
Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision Metadata
getRevisionBare 1 param → 200404
GET
/revision/{id}/source
Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision Wikitext Source
getRevisionSource 1 param → 200404
GET
/revision/{id}/html
Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision as HTML
getRevisionHtml 1 param → 200
GET
/revision/{id}/with_html
Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision Metadata and HTML
getRevisionWithHtml 1 param → 200404
POST
/revision/{from}/compare/{to}
Wikivoyage Core REST Compare Two Travel Article Revisions
compareRevisions 2 params → 200404

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Revision (10 properties), CompareResponse (3 properties), Error (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Revision
object
A travel article revision.
10 properties
CompareResponse
object
Comparison between two travel article revisions.
3 properties
Error
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

wikivoyage-revisions-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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