Wikipedia / MediaWiki History API
Page revision history and edit statistics
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: MediaWiki Core REST History API
description: 'MediaWiki Core REST API exposed by every MediaWiki installation under /w/rest.php/v1/. Provides page CRUD, search, files, history, revisions, and content transforms. On Wikimedia projects this endpoint serves Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc. in 300+ languages.
All endpoints require a meaningful User-Agent header; write endpoints require OAuth 2.0 (or a logged-in session).'
version: 1.0.0
x-generated-from: documentation
x-source-url: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Reference
x-last-validated: '2026-05-29'
contact:
name: Wikimedia Foundation
url: https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Core_REST_API
license:
name: CC BY-SA 4.0
url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
servers:
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1
description: English Wikipedia
- url: https://{lang}.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1
description: Per-language Wikipedia (en, de, fr, es, ja, zh, ...)
variables:
lang:
default: en
description: Language subdomain
- url: https://api.wikimedia.org/core/v1/wikipedia/{lang}
description: Wikimedia API Gateway equivalent of the Core REST API
variables:
lang:
default: en
description: Language code
tags:
- name: History
description: Page revision history and edit statistics
paths:
/page/{title}/history:
get:
operationId: getPageHistory
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Get Page Revision History
description: Retrieve the revision history for a page.
tags:
- History
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
parameters:
- name: title
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
description: URL-encoded page title
example: Earth
- name: older_than
in: query
schema:
type: integer
description: Return revisions older than this ID
- name: newer_than
in: query
schema:
type: integer
- name: filter
in: query
schema:
type: string
enum:
- reverted
- anonymous
- bot
- minor
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/HistoryResponse'
'404':
description: Not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
/page/{title}/history/counts/{type}:
get:
operationId: getPageHistoryCounts
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Get Edit Statistics for a Page
description: Get edit count statistics for a page by category.
tags:
- History
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
parameters:
- name: title
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
description: URL-encoded page title
example: Earth
- name: type
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
enum:
- anonymous
- bot
- editors
- edits
- minor
- reverted
description: Type of count to return
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EditCounts'
'404':
description: Not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
schemas:
Revision:
type: object
description: A page revision.
properties:
id:
type: integer
example: 1356767710
page:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
title:
type: string
size:
type: integer
description: Byte size of revision
minor:
type: boolean
timestamp:
type: string
format: date-time
content_model:
type: string
example: wikitext
license:
type: object
properties:
url:
type: string
format: uri
title:
type: string
user:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
name:
type: string
example: Jimbo Wales
comment:
type: string
description: Edit summary
delta:
type: integer
description: Byte delta from previous revision
Error:
type: object
properties:
errorKey:
type: string
example: rest-no-match
messageTranslations:
type: object
additionalProperties:
type: string
httpCode:
type: integer
example: 404
httpReason:
type: string
example: Not Found
EditCounts:
type: object
properties:
count:
type: integer
description: Edit count of requested type
limit:
type: boolean
description: Whether the count was truncated
HistoryResponse:
type: object
properties:
revisions:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Revision'
latest:
type: string
format: uri
description: Link to latest revisions page
older:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: uri
newer:
type:
- string
- 'null'
format: uri
securitySchemes:
BearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: OAuth 2.0 bearer token issued via api.wikimedia.org. Required for write operations.