Wikipedia / MediaWiki Pages API
Page metadata, HTML, source, create, update
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: MediaWiki Core REST Pages 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: Pages
description: Page metadata, HTML, source, create, update
paths:
/page/{title}:
get:
operationId: getPage
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Get Page Source and Metadata
description: Retrieve a wiki page including its wikitext source and metadata.
tags:
- Pages
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: redirect
in: query
schema:
type: string
enum:
- 'true'
- 'false'
- 'no'
description: Whether to resolve redirects
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Page'
'404':
description: Not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
put:
operationId: updatePage
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Update or Create a Page
description: Update an existing page, or create one if it does not exist. Optimistic concurrency via latest.id.
tags:
- Pages
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
parameters:
- name: title
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
description: URL-encoded page title
example: Earth
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/UpdatePageRequest'
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Page'
'404':
description: Not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
security:
- BearerAuth: []
/page/{title}/bare:
get:
operationId: getPageBare
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Get Page Metadata Without Content
description: Retrieve metadata about a page including a link to its rendered HTML.
tags:
- Pages
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: Successful response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Page'
'404':
description: Not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
/page/{title}/html:
get:
operationId: getPageHtml
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Get Page as HTML
description: Retrieve the rendered HTML for a page.
tags:
- Pages
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: Rendered HTML
content:
text/html:
schema:
type: string
/page/{title}/with_html:
get:
operationId: getPageWithHtml
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Get Page Metadata and HTML
description: Retrieve page metadata together with rendered HTML.
tags:
- Pages
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: Successful response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Page'
'404':
description: Not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
/page:
post:
operationId: createPage
summary: MediaWiki Core REST Create a New Wiki Page
description: Create a new wiki page. Requires OAuth bearer token and a CSRF token.
tags:
- Pages
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CreatePageRequest'
responses:
'201':
description: Page created
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Page'
security:
- BearerAuth: []
components:
schemas:
CreatePageRequest:
type: object
required:
- source
- title
- comment
properties:
source:
type: string
description: Wikitext source for the new page
example: '''''''Hello, world.'''''''
title:
type: string
description: New page title
example: User:Example/Sandbox
comment:
type: string
description: Edit summary
example: Creating sandbox page
content_model:
type: string
example: wikitext
token:
type: string
description: CSRF token from Action API
Page:
type: object
description: A MediaWiki page object.
properties:
id:
type: integer
example: 9228
description: Page ID
key:
type: string
example: Earth
description: Page DB key (URL form)
title:
type: string
example: Earth
description: Display title
latest:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
example: 1356767710
description: Revision ID
timestamp:
type: string
format: date-time
example: '2026-05-29T18:21:47Z'
content_model:
type: string
example: wikitext
license:
type: object
properties:
url:
type: string
format: uri
example: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
title:
type: string
example: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
html_url:
type: string
format: uri
source:
type: string
description: Page wikitext source
html:
type: string
description: Rendered HTML
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
UpdatePageRequest:
type: object
required:
- source
- comment
- latest
properties:
source:
type: string
comment:
type: string
content_model:
type: string
latest:
type: object
required:
- id
properties:
id:
type: integer
description: Latest revision ID known to the client (for optimistic concurrency)
token:
type: string
securitySchemes:
BearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: OAuth 2.0 bearer token issued via api.wikimedia.org. Required for write operations.