API:Get the contents of a page

There are three main methods for retrieving page content via the API:


 * 1) Get the contents of a page using the  API (as wikitext).


 * 1) Get the contents of a page using the  API (as HTML or 2>Special:MyLanguage/Wikitext|wikitext).


 * 1) Get plain text or limited HTML extracts of a page using the 1>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TextExtracts#API|API of the TextExtracts extension.

Method 1: Use the Revisions API
The  API can be used to retrieve the content of a page as wikitext.

This can be done by specifying the title of the page in the   parameter and setting the   parameter to  .

For more options, see .

Example
GET request to obtain the wikitext content of the page <tvar|1>Pet door</>.

Method 2: Use the Parse API
The <tvar|1></> API can be used to retrieve page content in either HTML format (parsed) or Wikitext format (unparsed).

This can be done by specifying a page with the <tvar|1> </> parameter or a revision with the <tvar|2> </> parameter.

To retrieve HTML, set <tvar|1> </> to <tvar|2> </>.

To retrieve Wikitext, set <tvar|1> </> to <tvar|2> </>.

Example 1
GET request to get parsed HTML content of a page: Pet door

Response
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Example 2
GET request to get the original wikitext content of a page: Pet door

Method 3: Use the TextExtracts API
The provides an API which allows you to retrieve plain-text or limited HTML extracts of page content. See for additional documentation.

Example
Get request to extract 10 sentences from the page: Pet door.

Additional notes
The content extracted directly from Wikipedia can be inserted into any MediaWiki wiki through. The content extracted comes in the form of limited wikitext, omitting leading templates, links to files or pages.