# MediaWiki REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/mediawiki-rest-api/  
**Provider:** Wikimedia — https://apis.io/providers/wikimedia/  
**Base URL:** https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1  
**Documentation:** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API

MediaWiki REST API is one of 20 APIs that [Wikimedia](https://apis.io/providers/wikimedia/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Wikipedia, Pages, Search, Revisions, and Media. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and rate-limit docs.

The MediaWiki REST API provides a modern RESTful interface for reading and writing wiki content including pages, revisions, file metadata, search, and content transformation between wikitext and HTML. Available on Wikipedia and all Wikimedia projects at the /rest.php endpoint.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Reference
- **RateLimits** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wikimedia/refs/heads/main//rate-limits/mediawiki-rest-api.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wikimedia/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Wikimedia APIs (12)

- [Wikimedia articles API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-articles-api/)
- [Wikimedia batches API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-batches-api/)
- [Wikimedia Citation API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-citation-api/)
- [Wikimedia codes API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-codes-api/)
- [Wikimedia languages API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-languages-api/)
- [Wikimedia Math API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-math-api/)
- [Wikimedia Mobile API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-mobile-api/)
- [Wikimedia namespaces API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-namespaces-api/)
- [Wikimedia offline API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-offline-api/)
- [Wikimedia Page content API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-page-content-api/)
- [Wikimedia projects API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-projects-api/)
- [Wikimedia Reading lists API](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/wikimedia-reading-lists-api/)

## Tags

Wikipedia, Pages, Search, Revisions, Media, Transforms

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/wikimedia/mediawiki-rest-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/wikimedia/.