Wikipedia / MediaWiki

Wikipedia / MediaWiki Page content API

page content in different formats

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 14

GET /page/ Wikimedia REST List Page-related API Entry Points #
GET /page/title/{title} Wikimedia REST Get Revision Metadata for a Title #
GET /page/title/{title}/{revision} Wikimedia REST Get Revision Metadata for a Title #
GET /page/html/{title} Wikimedia REST Get Latest HTML for a Title #
GET /page/html/{title}/{revision} Wikimedia REST Get HTML for a Specific Title/revision & Optionally Timeuuid #
GET /page/lint/{title} Wikimedia REST Get the Linter Errors for a Specific Title/revision #
GET /page/lint/{title}/{revision} Wikimedia REST Get the Linter Errors for a Specific Title/revision #
GET /page/summary/{title} Wikimedia REST Get Basic Metadata and Simplified Article Introduction #
GET /page/media-list/{title} Wikimedia REST Get List of Media Files Used on a Page #
GET /page/media-list/{title}/{revision} Wikimedia REST Get List of Media Files Used on a Page #
GET /page/mobile-html/{title} Wikimedia REST Get Page Content HTML Optimized for Mobile Consumption #
GET /page/mobile-html/{title}/{revision} Wikimedia REST Get Page Content HTML Optimized for Mobile Consumption #
GET /page/mobile-html-offline-resources/{title} Wikimedia REST Get Styles and Scripts for Offline Consumption of… #
GET /page/mobile-html-offline-resources/{title}/{revision} Wikimedia REST Get Styles and Scripts for Offline Consumption of… #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
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Documentation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Reference
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Documentation
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/
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Documentation
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service
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Documentation
https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wikipedia/refs/heads/main/openapi/wikipedia-page-content-api-openapi.yml

Other Resources

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Sandbox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox
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Tutorials
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Tutorial
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Etiquette
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette
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APIPortal
https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Core_REST_API
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Specification
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?spec
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QueryHelp
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Wikidata_Query_Help
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Editor
https://query.wikidata.org
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DataDictionary
https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/data-dictionary/
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Pricing
https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/pricing/
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SDKs
https://github.com/wikimedia-enterprise/wme-sdk-python
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SDKs
https://github.com/wikimedia-enterprise/wme-sdk-go
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Postman
https://github.com/wikimedia-enterprise/postman

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OpenAPI Specification

wikipedia-page-content-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 1.0.0
  title: Wikimedia REST Page content API
  description: This API provides cacheable and straightforward access to Wikimedia content and data, in machine-readable formats.
  termsOfService: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
  contact:
    name: the Wikimedia Services team
    url: http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_REST_API
  license:
    name: Apache2
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  x-generated-from: spec-endpoint
  x-source-url: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?spec
servers:
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1
  description: English Wikipedia REST v1 endpoint
- url: https://{lang}.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1
  description: Per-language Wikipedia REST v1 endpoint
  variables:
    lang:
      default: en
      description: Language code (e.g. en, de, fr, es, ja)
tags:


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