API:Changing wiki content

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Basics All Query modulesAPI:Query Get properties of pagesAPI:Properties List pages matching a criterionAPI:Lists Get module parameters informationAPI:Parameter information Get meta information about the wiki and userAPI:Meta Authentication Get tokens for data modifying operationsAPI:Tokens LoginAPI:Login LogoutAPI:Logout Assert userAPI:Assert Accounts and Users Create an accountAPI:Account creation Block or unblock a userAPI:Block Get the current user's watchlist as a feedAPI:Watchlist feed Change user optionsAPI:Options Change user group membershipAPI:User group membership Send an emailAPI:Emailuser Page Operations Parse content of a pageAPI:Parsing wikitext Create and edit a pageAPI:Edit Upload a fileAPI:Upload Import a pageAPI:Import Delete a pageAPI:Delete Watch or unwatch a pageAPI:Watch Purge cache for page(s)API:Purge Rollback a pageAPI:Rollback Move a pageAPI:Move Patrol a page or revisionAPI:Patrol Restore revisions of a deleted pageAPI:Undelete Change a page's protection levelAPI:Protect Change a page's languageAPI:SetPageLanguage More...API:Changing wiki content Search Search for a title or textAPI:Search Fetch results in an OpenSearch formatAPI:Opensearch Search for wiki pages near a locationAPI:Geosearch Search for a languageAPI:Languagesearch Perform a prefix search for page titlesAPI:Prefixsearch Developer Utilities Access librariesAPI:Client code Cross-site requestsAPI:Cross-site requests Creating an API module in an extensionAPI:Extensions Using the API in MediaWiki and extensionsAPI:Calling internally Restricting API usageAPI:Restricting API usage LocalisationAPI:Localisation Implementation strategyAPI:Implementation Strategy

Changing wiki content through the API is enabled by default as of MediaWiki 1.14; it can be disabled by setting $wgEnableWriteAPI = false;Manual:$wgEnableWriteAPI in "LocalSettings.php". In MediaWiki 1.13 and earlier, you have to explicitly enable the write API with $wgEnableWriteAPI = true;

In MediaWiki 1.31 configuration parameter $wgEnableWriteAPI was deprecated and in future versions of MediaWiki it will no longer be possible to disable API access to the software.

Please see the appropriate subsection for detailed information for each module. Write modules generally require a POST method, where read modules usually use GET methods. Exceptions are noted on individual pages.

Read Modules

Write Modules

Changeauthenticationdata ⧼apihelp-changeauthenticationdata-description⧽ ChecktokenAPI:Checktoken ⧼apihelp-checktoken-description⧽ ClientloginAPI:Login ⧼apihelp-clientlogin-description⧽ CompareAPI:Compare Get the difference between 2 pages. ExpandtemplatesAPI:Expandtemplates ⧼apihelp-expandtemplates-description⧽ FeedcontributionsAPI:Feedcontributions ⧼apihelp-feedcontributions-description⧽ FeedrecentchangesAPI:Feedrecentchanges ⧼apihelp-feedrecentchanges-description⧽ FeedwatchlistAPI:Feedwatchlist ⧼apihelp-feedwatchlist-description⧽ HelpAPI:Help ⧼apihelp-help-description⧽ Linkaccount ⧼apihelp-linkaccount-description⧽ LoginAPI:Login Log in and get authentication cookies. LogoutAPI:Logout ⧼apihelp-logout-description⧽ OpensearchAPI:Opensearch ⧼apihelp-opensearch-description⧽ ParaminfoAPI:Paraminfo ⧼apihelp-paraminfo-description⧽ ParseAPI:Parse Parses content and returns parser output. QueryAPI:Query Fetch data from and about MediaWiki. Removeauthenticationdata ⧼apihelp-removeauthenticationdata-description⧽ RsdAPI:Rsd ⧼apihelp-rsd-description⧽ StasheditAPI:Stashedit Prepare an edit in shared cache. TokensAPI:Tokens Get tokens for data-modifying actions. Unlinkaccount ⧼apihelp-unlinkaccount-description⧽

BlockAPI:Block Block a user. ClearhasmsgAPI:Clearhasmsg Clears the hasmsg flag for the current user. CreateaccountAPI:Createaccount Create a new user account. DeleteAPI:Delete Delete a page. EditAPI:Edit Create and edit pages. EmailuserAPI:Email Email a user. FilerevertAPI:Filerevert Revert a file to an old version. ImagerotateAPI:Imagerotate Rotate one or more images. ImportAPI:Import Import a page from another wiki, or from an XML file. ManagetagsAPI:Managetags Perform management tasks relating to change tags. MergehistoryAPI:Mergehistory Merge page histories. MoveAPI:Move Move a page. OptionsAPI:Options Change preferences of the current user. PatrolAPI:Patrol Patrol a page or revision. ProtectAPI:Protect ⧼apihelp-protect-description⧽ PurgeAPI:Purge Purge the cache for the given titles. ResetpasswordAPI:Resetpassword ⧼apihelp-resetpassword-description⧽ RevisiondeleteAPI:Revisiondelete ⧼apihelp-revisiondelete-description⧽ RollbackAPI:Rollback Undo the last series of edits to a page by the last user. SetnotificationtimestampAPI:Setnotificationtimestamp Update the notification timestamp for watched pages. TagAPI:Tag ⧼apihelp-tag-description⧽ UnblockAPI:Unblock ⧼apihelp-unblock-description⧽ UndeleteAPI:Undelete Restore revisions of a deleted page. UploadAPI:Upload Upload a file, or get the status of pending uploads. UserrightsAPI:User group membership ⧼apihelp-userrights-description⧽ WatchAPI:Watch ⧼apihelp-watch-description⧽

Possible errors

Some wikis restrict the use of these modules to certain groups of users, or disallow it altogether. All aforementioned modules can return the following errors:

Code	Info
noapiwrite	Editing of this wiki through the API is disabled. Make sure the $wgEnableWriteAPI=true; statement is included in the wiki's LocalSettings.php file.
writeapidenied	You're not allowed to edit this wiki through the API.