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MediaWiki has several application programming interfaces (APIs).

The three most important APIs of MediaWiki are:


 * the MediaWiki Action API (api.php), which is a web API that lets you read and write content of a
 * the MediaWiki PHP API, which can be used to develop for MediaWiki in
 * the MediaWiki JavaScript API (mw), which can be used to develop to extend the MediaWiki user interface

Note that the MediaWiki Action API and the MediaWiki JavaScript API are both modular: both can be extended by extensions, so the available API modules can differ from wiki to wiki. While the API modules built into are available in most MediaWiki wikis, built-in Action API modules.

Within the context of the MediaWiki website the Action API can be accessed from JavaScript via the mw.API JavaScript API. For libraries to access the MediaWiki Action API from your favorite programming language, see.