Wikipedia / MediaWiki

Wikipedia / MediaWiki Talk pages API

The Talk pages API from Wikipedia / MediaWiki — 2 operation(s) for talk pages.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 2

GET /page/talk/{title} Wikimedia REST Get Structured Talk Page Contents #
GET /page/talk/{title}/{revision} Wikimedia REST Get Structured Talk Page Contents #

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-talk-pages-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-talk-pages-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 1.0.0
  title: Wikimedia REST Talk pages 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:
- name: Talk pages
paths:
  /page/talk/{title}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Talk pages
      summary: Wikimedia REST Get Structured Talk Page Contents
      description: 'Gets structured talk page contents for the provided title.


        Stability: experimental'
      parameters:
      - name: title
        in: path
        description: 'Page title. Use underscores instead of spaces. Use percent-encoding. Example: `Main_Page`.'
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: redirect
        in: query
        description: 'Requests for [redirect pages](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects) return HTTP 302 with a redirect target in `Location` header and content in the body.

          To get a 200 response instead, supply `false` to the `redirect` parameter.

          '
        schema:
          type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: structured talk page JSON.
          headers:
            ETag:
              description: 'Syntax: "{revision}/{tid}". Example: "701384379/154d7bca-c264-11e5-8c2f-1b51b33b59fc"

                '
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json; charset=utf-8; profile="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/Talk/0.1.0":
              schema:
                type: string
        '301':
          description: 'A permanent redirect is returned if the supplied article title was not in the normalized form.

            To avoid this kind of redirect, you can use the [mediawiki-title](https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-title) library to perform

            title normalization client-side.


            Beware that redirected pre-flighted cross-origin requests (such as those sending custom request headers like `Api-User-Agent`)

            will fail in most current browsers [due to a spec bug](https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/204).

            '
        '302':
          description: 'The page is a [redirect page](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects).

            The `location` header points to the redirect target.

            If you would like to avoid automatically following redirect pages, set the `redirect=false` query parameter.


            Beware that redirected pre-flighted cross-origin requests (such as those sending custom request headers like `Api-User-Agent`)

            will fail in most current browsers [due to a spec bug](https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/204).

            '
        '404':
          description: Unknown page title
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/problem'
        default:
          description: Error
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/problem'
      x-monitor: true
      x-amples:
      - title: Get structured talk page for enwiki Salt article
        request:
          params:
            domain: en.wikipedia.org
            title: Salt
        response:
          status: 200
          headers:
            content-type: /application\/json; charset=utf-8; profile=".+Talk.+"/
            etag: /.+/
          body:
            topics:
            - id: /.+/
              replies:
              - sha: /.+/
                depth: /.+/
                html: /.*/
              depth: /.+/
              html: /.*/
              shas:
                html: /.+/
                indicator: /.+/
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      operationId: getPageTalkByTitle
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /page/talk/{title}/{revision}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Talk pages
      summary: Wikimedia REST Get Structured Talk Page Contents
      description: 'Gets structured talk page contents for the provided title.


        Stability: experimental'
      parameters:
      - name: title
        in: path
        description: 'Page title. Use underscores instead of spaces. Use percent-encoding. Example: `Main_Page`.'
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: revision
        in: path
        description: 'Optional page revision. Note that older revisions are not stored, so request latency with the revision would be higher.

          '
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: redirect
        in: query
        description: 'Requests for [redirect pages](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects) return HTTP 302 with a redirect target in `Location` header and content in the body.

          To get a 200 response instead, supply `false` to the `redirect` parameter.

          '
        schema:
          type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: structured talk page JSON.
          headers:
            ETag:
              description: 'Syntax: "{revision}/{tid}". Example: "701384379/154d7bca-c264-11e5-8c2f-1b51b33b59fc"

                '
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json; charset=utf-8; profile="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/Talk/0.1.0":
              schema:
                type: string
        '301':
          description: 'A permanent redirect is returned if the supplied article title was not in the normalized form.

            To avoid this kind of redirect, you can use the [mediawiki-title](https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-title) library to perform

            title normalization client-side.


            Beware that redirected pre-flighted cross-origin requests (such as those sending custom request headers like `Api-User-Agent`)

            will fail in most current browsers [due to a spec bug](https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/204).

            '
        '302':
          description: 'The page is a [redirect page](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects).

            The `location` header points to the redirect target.

            If you would like to avoid automatically following redirect pages, set the `redirect=false` query parameter.


            Beware that redirected pre-flighted cross-origin requests (such as those sending custom request headers like `Api-User-Agent`)

            will fail in most current browsers [due to a spec bug](https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/204).

            '
        '404':
          description: Unknown page title
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/problem'
        default:
          description: Error
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/problem'
      x-monitor: false
      x-amples:
      - title: Get structured talk page for enwiki Salt article
        request:
          params:
            domain: en.wikipedia.org
            title: Salt
        response:
          status: 200
          headers:
            content-type: /application\/json; charset=utf-8; profile=".+Talk.+"/
            etag: /.+/
          body:
            topics:
            - id: /.+/
              replies:
              - sha: /.+/
                depth: /.+/
                html: /.*/
              depth: /.+/
              html: /.*/
              shas:
                html: /.+/
                indicator: /.+/
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      operationId: getPageTalkByTitleByRevision
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  schemas:
    problem:
      required:
      - type
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
        title:
          type: string
        detail:
          type: string
        instance:
          type: string
x-host-basePath: /api/rest_v1
x-default-params: {}