# MediaWiki Core REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/mediawiki-core-rest-api/  
**Provider:** Wikisource — https://apis.io/providers/wikisource/  
**Base URL:** https://en.wikisource.org/w/rest.php/v1  
**Documentation:** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API

MediaWiki Core REST API is one of 10 APIs that [Wikisource](https://apis.io/providers/wikisource/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include REST API, Core, Pages, Search, and History. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Reference
- **Sandbox** — https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:RestSandbox
- **APIPortal** — https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Core_REST_API

## Other Wikisource APIs (9)

- [MediaWiki Action API](https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/mediawiki-action-api/)
- [Wikimedia REST API v1](https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/wikimedia-rest-api-v1/)
- [Wikisource Citation API](https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/wikisource-citation-api/)
- [Wikisource Math API](https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/wikisource-math-api/)
- [Wikisource Mobile API](https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/wikisource-mobile-api/)
- [Wikisource Page content API](https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/wikisource-page-content-api/)
- [Wikisource Reading lists API](https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/wikisource-reading-lists-api/)
- [Wikisource Recommendation API](https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/wikisource-recommendation-api/)
- [Wikisource Transforms API](https://apis.io/apis/wikisource/wikisource-transforms-api/)

## Tags

REST API, Core, Pages, Search, History, Transforms

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