Wikisource

MediaWiki Core REST API

Modern REST surface available on Wikisource at /w/rest.php/v1/. Provides page reads (source, HTML, bare metadata), full-text search, file metadata, page history, revision retrieval and comparison, and wikitext-to-HTML / HTML-to-wikitext transforms. Well-suited for integrations that need standard HTTP verbs rather than the action= dispatch style.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Reference

Other Resources

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Sandbox
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RestSandbox
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APIPortal
https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Core_REST_API

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: MediaWiki Core REST API
description: Modern REST surface available on Wikisource at /w/rest.php/v1/. Provides page reads (source,
  HTML, bare metadata), full-text search, file metadata, page history, revision retrieval and comparison,
  and wikitext-to-HTML / HTML-to-wikitext transforms. Well-suited for integrations that need standard
  HTTP verbs rather than the action= dispatch style.
humanURL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API
baseURL: https://en.wikisource.org/w/rest.php/v1
tags:
- REST API
- Core
- Pages
- Search
- History
- Transforms
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Reference
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RestSandbox
- type: APIPortal
  url: https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Core_REST_API