Wikipedia / MediaWiki
Wikipedia is the free, multilingual online encyclopedia operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. The platform exposes its content and structured data through several public APIs: the original MediaWiki Action API (action=query|edit|parse|upload), the MediaWiki Core REST API (page CRUD, search, transforms), the Wikimedia REST API (page summaries, mobile HTML, math, citation, reading lists, recommendations), the Wikidata Query Service SPARQL endpoint (structured knowledge graph queries), and the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs (commercial Snapshot, On-demand, Realtime). All free APIs are governed by the Wikimedia API usage guidelines: contactable User-Agent, serial requests, maxlag for bots.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki publishes 33 APIs on the APIs.io network, including articles API, Authentication API, batches API, and 30 more. Tagged areas include Open Data, Public APIs, Open Knowledge, Encyclopedia, and Knowledge Graph.
The Wikipedia / MediaWiki catalog on APIs.io includes 6 JSON-LD contexts and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, status page, tooling, engineering blog, and 33 more developer resources.
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APIs 33
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki articles API
On-demand API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Authentication API
Login, logout, token retrieval (action=login, clientlogin, logout, query&meta=tokens)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki batches API
Realtime Batch API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Citation API
generation of citation data
Wikipedia / MediaWiki codes API
Metadata
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Edit API
Create/modify page content (action=edit)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Files API
Media file metadata
Wikipedia / MediaWiki History API
Page revision history and edit statistics
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Links API
Page relationships - language and media links
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Math API
formula rendering
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Meta API
Metadata operations (action=opensearch, action=feedrecentchanges)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Mobile API
The Mobile API from Wikipedia / MediaWiki — 3 operation(s) for mobile.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki offline API
The offline API from Wikipedia / MediaWiki — 2 operation(s) for offline.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Page content API
page content in different formats
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Pages API
Page metadata, HTML, source, create, update
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Parse API
Wikitext parsing (action=parse)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Patrol API
Mark edits as patrolled (action=patrol)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Query API
Read-only data retrieval (action=query) — pages, revisions, links, search
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Reading lists API
Private lists of selected pages
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Recommendation API
contribution recommendations
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Revisions API
Individual revision retrieval and comparison
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Search API
Title and full-text search
Wikipedia / MediaWiki snapshots API
Snapshot API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki SPARQL API
SPARQL 1.1 query endpoint
Wikipedia / MediaWiki structured-contents API
(Beta) Structured Contents On-demand API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki structured-snapshots API
(BETA) Structured Contents Snapshot API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Talk pages API
The Talk pages API from Wikipedia / MediaWiki — 2 operation(s) for talk pages.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Transforms API
Wikitext <-> HTML transformation
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Upload API
File upload (action=upload)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki wikidata API
The wikidata API from Wikipedia / MediaWiki — 3 operation(s) for wikidata.
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Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Wikipedia Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Wikipedia Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 6
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Wikipedia Context
JSON-LDWikipedia Rest V1 Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki API Rules
SPECTRALWikipedia / MediaWiki API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 81
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ActionApiError
JSON SCHEMAActionApiWriteRequest
JSON SCHEMAActionResult
JSON SCHEMACompareResponse
JSON SCHEMACreatePageRequest
JSON SCHEMAEditCounts
JSON SCHEMAFile
JSON SCHEMAHistoryResponse
JSON SCHEMALanguageLink
JSON SCHEMAPage
JSON SCHEMARevision
JSON SCHEMASearchResponse
JSON SCHEMASearchResult
JSON SCHEMAUpdatePageRequest
JSON SCHEMAcx_dict
JSON SCHEMAcx_mt
JSON SCHEMAlist_entry_read
JSON SCHEMAlist_entry_write
JSON SCHEMAlist_read
JSON SCHEMAlist_write
JSON SCHEMAlisting
JSON SCHEMAmedia_item
JSON SCHEMAmedia_list
JSON SCHEMAmorelike_result
JSON SCHEMAoriginalimage
JSON SCHEMAproblem
JSON SCHEMArecommendation_result
JSON SCHEMAresult
JSON SCHEMArevisionIdentifier
JSON SCHEMArevisionInfo
JSON SCHEMArevision
JSON SCHEMArevisions
JSON SCHEMAsummary
JSON SCHEMAthumbnail
JSON SCHEMAtitles_set
JSON SCHEMASparqlResults
JSON SCHEMAarticle_body
JSON SCHEMAarticle_namespace
JSON SCHEMAarticle
JSON SCHEMAbatch
JSON SCHEMAcategory
JSON SCHEMAcitation
JSON SCHEMAcode
JSON SCHEMAeditor
JSON SCHEMAentity
JSON SCHEMAevent
JSON SCHEMAfilter
JSON SCHEMAimage
JSON SCHEMAlanguage
JSON SCHEMAlicense
JSON SCHEMAlink
JSON SCHEMAmaintenance_tags
JSON SCHEMAnamespace
JSON SCHEMApart
JSON SCHEMAproject
JSON SCHEMAprotection
JSON SCHEMAredirect
JSON SCHEMAreference
JSON SCHEMAreferenceneed
JSON SCHEMAreferencerisk
JSON SCHEMArevertrisk
JSON SCHEMAscores
JSON SCHEMAsize
JSON SCHEMAsnapshot
JSON SCHEMAstructured-content
JSON SCHEMAtable
JSON SCHEMAtemplate
JSON SCHEMAthumbnail
JSON SCHEMAversion
JSON SCHEMAvisibility
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_article
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_property
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_qualifier
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_reference_part
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_statement_reference
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_value
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_labels
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_sitelinks
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_statement
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_statements
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JSON Structure 81
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Mediawiki Action Api Action Api Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Action Api Action Api Write Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Action Api Action Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Compare Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Create Page Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Edit Counts Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest File Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest History Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Language Link Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Page Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Revision Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Search Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Search Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Update Page Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Cx Dict Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Cx Mt Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 List Entry Read Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 List Entry Write Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 List Read Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 List Write Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Listing Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Media Item Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Media List Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Morelike Result Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Originalimage Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Problem Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Recommendation Result Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Result Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Revision Identifier Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Revision Info Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Revision Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Revisions Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Thumbnail Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Titles Set Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikidata Sparql Sparql Results Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Article Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Article Namespace Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Article Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Batch Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Category Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Citation Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Code Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Editor Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Entity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Event Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Filter Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Image Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Language Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise License Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Link Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Maintenance Tags Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Namespace Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Part Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Project Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Protection Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Redirect Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Reference Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Referenceneed Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Referencerisk Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Revertrisk Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Scores Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Size Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Snapshot Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Structured Content Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Table Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Template Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Thumbnail Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Version Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Visibility Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Article Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Entity Property Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Entity Qualifier Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Entity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Entity Value Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Labels Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Sitelinks Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Statement Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Statements Structure
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Examples 79
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Rest V1 Cx Dict Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Cx Mt Example
EXAMPLERest V1 List Read Example
EXAMPLERest V1 List Write Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Listing Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Media Item Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Media List Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Problem Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Result Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Revision Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Revisions Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Summary Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Thumbnail Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Titles Set Example
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
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Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 14
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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