API:Search

 GET Request  to search for a title or text in a wiki

GET Request
Note: Default search results are without UTF8 encoding. Replace  in the get request above to see the difference.

Sample code
Search.py

Demo app(s)



 * Article suggestion app allows you to pick a category and suggest articles to write on that don't yet exist on English Wikipedia.

Parameter history

 * v1.24: Deprecated ,
 * v1.23: Removed . Redirects are always included. Introduced
 * v1.22: Introduced
 * v1.17: Introduced,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,
 * v1.16: Introduced ,

Additional notes

 * Depending on which search backend is in use, how  is interpreted may vary. On Wikimedia wikis which use CirrusSearch, see Help:CirrusSearch for information about the search syntax.