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Wikivoyage Search API

Title and full-text search across Wikivoyage travel articles

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

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

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 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.

2 operations 2 paths 3 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 Search 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.

Search 2

Title and full-text search across Wikivoyage travel articles

GET
/search/page
Wikivoyage Core REST Full-Text Search Travel Articles
searchPages 2 params → 200404
GET
/search/title
Wikivoyage Core REST Autocomplete Destination Title Search
searchTitles 2 params → 200404

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SearchResult (7 properties), Error (2 properties), SearchResponse (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SearchResponse
object
1 property
SearchResult
object
A search result travel article entry.
7 properties
Error
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

wikivoyage-search-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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