Wikipedia / MediaWiki Links API
Page relationships - language and media links
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: MediaWiki Core REST Links 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: Links
description: Page relationships - language and media links
paths:
/page/{title}/links/language:
get:
operationId: getPageLanguageLinks
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Get Language Links for a Page
description: Return interlanguage links (same topic in other languages) for a page.
tags:
- Links
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
parameters:
- name: title
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
description: URL-encoded page title
example: Earth
responses:
'200':
description: Language links
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/LanguageLink'
/page/{title}/links/media:
get:
operationId: getPageMediaLinks
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Get Media Files Used on a Page
description: List media files referenced from a page.
tags:
- Links
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
parameters:
- name: title
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
description: URL-encoded page title
example: Earth
responses:
'200':
description: Files used on the page
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
files:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/File'
components:
schemas:
File:
type: object
description: A media file descriptor.
properties:
title:
type: string
example: File:Earth_Eastern_Hemisphere.jpg
file_description_url:
type: string
format: uri
latest:
type: object
properties:
timestamp:
type: string
format: date-time
user:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
name:
type: string
preferred:
type: object
properties:
mediatype:
type: string
example: BITMAP
size:
type: integer
width:
type: integer
height:
type: integer
url:
type: string
format: uri
original:
type: object
properties:
mediatype:
type: string
size:
type: integer
width:
type: integer
height:
type: integer
url:
type: string
format: uri
LanguageLink:
type: object
properties:
code:
type: string
example: de
description: Language code
name:
type: string
example: Deutsch
key:
type: string
example: Erde
title:
type: string
example: Erde
securitySchemes:
BearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: OAuth 2.0 bearer token issued via api.wikimedia.org. Required for write operations.