API
From MediaWiki.org
Attention visitors
This page describes the ongoing effort to provide a stable API within MediaWiki
for convenient access to machine-readable data.
MediaWiki at present has three interfaces:
- MediaWiki API - the new API described on these pages.
- Special:Export feature (bulk export of XML formatted data)
- Regular web-based interface, see Manual:Parameters to index.php
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This page is part of the MediaWiki API documentation. |
See the menu bar on the right for the API sub-topics.
The goal of this API (Application Programming Interface) is to provide direct, high-level access to the data contained in the MediaWiki databases. Client programs can use the API to login, get data, and post changes. The API supports thin web-based JavaScript clients, such as Navigation popups or LiveRC, end-user applications (such as vandal fighter), and can be accessed by another web site (tool server's utilities).
All output is available in a wide range of formats.
Each API module uses a set of parameters. To prevent name collision, each submodule of action=query has a two letter abbreviation, and each parameter name begins with those two letters.
- Short help and parameter guide can be obtained from the api itself
- Mailing List for notifications and questions: API mailing list
- Low-traffic mailing list for announcements only (all posts to this list are posted to mediawiki-api as well): mediawiki-api-announce
- View and report API bugs: BugZilla (When reporting new bugs, don't forget to set Component=API)
