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Wiktionary History API

Page history and revision details

Wiktionary History API is one of 11 APIs that Wiktionary publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 64 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include History. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, authentication docs, rate-limit docs, and 64 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://en.wiktionary.org/w/rest.php.

3 operations 3 paths 4 schemas 3 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Wiktionary History API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 1 scope. By default, every request must be authenticated, though some operations may also be called without credentials.

  • oauth2 — OAuth 2.0 access tokens issued via api.wikimedia.org.

Paths & Operations 3

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

History 3

Page history and revision details

GET
/v1/page/{title}/history
Wiktionary Get Page History
getPageHistory 4 params → 200
GET
/v1/page/{title}/history/counts/{type}
Wiktionary Get Page History Count
getPageHistoryCount 2 params → 200
GET
/v1/revision/{id}/bare
Wiktionary Get Revision Bare
getRevisionBare 1 param → 200

Schemas 4

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

HistoryResponse
object
4 properties
LicenseInfo
object
2 properties
RevisionDetail
object
10 properties
HistoryCountResponse
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

wiktionary-history-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Wiktionary publishes across the network.

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Wiktionary File API
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Wiktionary Page API
Wiktionary Page Content API
Wiktionary Parse API
Wiktionary Query API
Wiktionary Search API
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