Wikivoyage Revisions API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Wikivoyage MediaWiki Action Authentication Revisions 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: Revisions
  description: Individual revision retrieval and comparison
paths:
  /revision/{id}:
    get:
      operationId: getRevision
      summary: Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision with HTML Link
      description: Retrieve a specific revision of a Wikivoyage travel article and a link to its rendered HTML.
      tags:
      - Revisions
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Revision identifier
        example: 5234567
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Revision'
        '404':
          description: Not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  /revision/{id}/bare:
    get:
      operationId: getRevisionBare
      summary: Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision Metadata
      description: Retrieve revision metadata without source or HTML content.
      tags:
      - Revisions
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Revision identifier
        example: 5234567
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Revision'
        '404':
          description: Not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  /revision/{id}/source:
    get:
      operationId: getRevisionSource
      summary: Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision Wikitext Source
      description: Retrieve the wikitext source for a specific revision of a travel article.
      tags:
      - Revisions
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Revision identifier
        example: 5234567
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Revision'
        '404':
          description: Not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  /revision/{id}/html:
    get:
      operationId: getRevisionHtml
      summary: Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision as HTML
      description: Retrieve the rendered HTML for a specific revision of a Wikivoyage travel article.
      tags:
      - Revisions
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Revision identifier
        example: 5234567
      responses:
        '200':
          description: HTML for the revision
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
  /revision/{id}/with_html:
    get:
      operationId: getRevisionWithHtml
      summary: Wikivoyage Core REST Get Revision Metadata and HTML
      description: Retrieve revision metadata together with rendered HTML for a travel article revision.
      tags:
      - Revisions
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Revision identifier
        example: 5234567
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Revision'
        '404':
          description: Not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  /revision/{from}/compare/{to}:
    post:
      operationId: compareRevisions
      summary: Wikivoyage Core REST Compare Two Travel Article Revisions
      description: Produce a structured diff between two revisions of a Wikivoyage travel article to track changes in travel information over time.
      tags:
      - Revisions
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
      parameters:
      - name: from
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: From revision ID
      - name: to
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: To revision ID
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompareResponse'
        '404':
          description: Not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    Revision:
      type: object
      description: A travel article revision.
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
          example: 5234567
        page:
          type: object
          properties:
            id:
              type: integer
            title:
              type: string
        size:
          type: integer
          description: Byte size of revision
        minor:
          type: boolean
        timestamp:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        content_model:
          type: string
          example: wikitext
        license:
          type: object
          properties:
            url:
              type: string
              format: uri
            title:
              type: string
        user:
          type: object
          properties:
            id:
              type: integer
            name:
              type: string
              example: TravelContributor
        comment:
          type: string
          description: Edit summary
        delta:
          type: integer
          description: Byte delta from previous revision
    CompareResponse:
      type: object
      description: Comparison between two travel article revisions.
      properties:
        from:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Revision'
        to:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Revision'
        diff:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              type:
                type: integer
                description: 0 context, 1 add line, 2 delete line, 3 in-line change, 4 moved paragraph, 5 paragraph moved into place
              lineNumber:
                type: integer
              text:
                type: string
              offset:
                type: object
                properties:
                  from:
                    type: integer
                  to:
                    type: integer
              highlightRanges:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        errorKey:
          type: string
        messageTranslations:
          type: object
  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