Wikivoyage Query API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Wikivoyage MediaWiki Action Authentication Query API
  description: 'The MediaWiki Action API is the primary programmatic interface for Wikivoyage, exposed at https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/api.php. All operations dispatch via the ?action= query parameter. The API supports JSON, XML, and PHP serialization; JSON is the recommended format.


    Wikivoyage covers travel destinations worldwide and the Action API enables retrieval of travel destination articles, accommodation listings, sightseeing information, and practical travel advice. Supports both anonymous reads and authenticated writes via OAuth 2.0.


    Wikimedia Foundation API guidelines require a contactable User-Agent header, serial (not parallel) calls for bulk work, and the maxlag parameter for automated clients.'
  version: '1.47'
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-source-url: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
  x-last-validated: '2026-06-13'
  contact:
    name: Wikimedia Foundation
    url: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette
  license:
    name: CC BY-SA 4.0
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
servers:
- url: https://en.wikivoyage.org/w
  description: English Wikivoyage
- url: https://{lang}.wikivoyage.org/w
  description: Per-language Wikivoyage
  variables:
    lang:
      default: en
      description: Language code (en, de, fr, es, it, pt, ru, zh, ...)
tags:
- name: Query
  description: Read-only data retrieval (action=query) — travel articles, revisions, links, search
paths:
  /api.php:
    get:
      operationId: callActionApiGet
      summary: Wikivoyage MediaWiki Action API Dispatch (GET)
      description: Generic dispatch endpoint for read operations on Wikivoyage travel content. Use ?action=query for data retrieval, ?action=parse to parse wikitext travel articles, ?action=opensearch for destination auto-complete. Always include format=json. Combine multiple titles with the pipe character (titles=Paris|Rome|Tokyo). Use the maxlag parameter for non-interactive jobs.
      tags:
      - Query
      parameters:
      - name: action
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - query
          - parse
          - opensearch
          - feedrecentchanges
          - feedcontributions
          - feedwatchlist
          - sitematrix
          - compare
          - expandtemplates
          - help
          - paraminfo
          - rsd
          example: query
        description: API action to dispatch
      - name: format
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - json
          - jsonfm
          - xml
          - xmlfm
          - php
          - rawfm
          - none
          default: json
        description: Response format. Always use json.
      - name: titles
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Pipe-separated list of travel destination article titles
        example: Paris|Rome|Tokyo
      - name: pageids
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Pipe-separated list of page IDs
      - name: prop
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Properties to fetch (info|revisions|links|categories|images|extracts|...)
        example: info|revisions
      - name: list
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: List generators (allpages|search|recentchanges|categorymembers|...)
      - name: meta
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Meta queries (siteinfo|userinfo|tokens|...)
        example: tokens
      - name: maxlag
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Maximum replication lag in seconds before the request is rejected. Required for bots.
        example: 5
      - name: smaxage
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Shared-cache max-age in seconds
      - name: maxage
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Cache max-age in seconds
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Action result
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ActionResult'
        '429':
          description: Rate limited - retry with exponential backoff
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  schemas:
    ActionResult:
      type: object
      description: Generic envelope for Action API responses. Concrete payload shape depends on action and prop/list/meta selection.
      properties:
        batchcomplete:
          type: string
          description: Present when the batch completed in one round-trip
        continue:
          type: object
          description: Continuation tokens for paginated responses
        query:
          type: object
          description: Result body for action=query
        parse:
          type: object
          description: Result body for action=parse
        edit:
          type: object
          description: Result body for action=edit
        login:
          type: object
          description: Result body for action=login
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ActionApiError'
        warnings:
          type: object
    ActionApiError:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          example: ratelimited
        info:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error description
        '*':
          type: string
          description: Legacy error text
        docref:
          type: string
          description: Pointer to docs for this error class
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: OAuth 2.0 bearer token from meta.wikimedia.org
    CookieAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: cookie
      name: wikivoyagewikiUserID
      description: Session cookie obtained via action=login or action=clientlogin