API:REST API/Reference/Sample code:Create page

curl

# Create a user sandbox page on English Wikipedia
$ curl -X POST https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --data '{"source": "Hello, world!", "title": "User:<my username>/Sandbox", "comment": "Creating a test page with the REST API"}'

Python

# Create a user sandbox page on English Wikipedia
import requests
import json

url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page'

# Substitute your OAuth token
headers = {
    'User-Agent'   : 'MediaWiki REST API docs examples/0.1 (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:REST_API)',
    'Content-Type' : 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer $TOKEN'
}

# Substitute your username
request_data = {
    "source" : "Hello, world!",
    "title"  : "User:<my username>/Sandbox",
    "comment": "Creating a test page with the REST API"
}

response = requests.post( url, headers=headers, data = json.dumps(request_data) )
output = response.json()

print(output)

PHP

<?php
/*
Create a user sandbox page on English Wikipedia
*/

$url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page';

// Substitute your username
$fields = [
    'source' => 'Hello, world!',
    'title' => 'User:<my username>/Sandbox',
    'comment' => 'Creating a test page with the REST API'
];

$json = json_encode( $fields );

$token = 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN'; // Substitute your OAuth token
$authorization = 'Authorization: Bearer ' . $token;

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Content-Type: application/json' , $authorization ));
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'MediaWiki REST API docs examples/0.1 (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:REST_API)' );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );

$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

echo( $output );
?>

JavaScript

/*  
    Create a user sandbox page on English Wikipedia

    Substitute your OAuth token for $TOKEN.
    Substitute your username for <my username>.
*/

async function doFetch() {
  const response = await fetch(
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page",
    {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Authorization': 'Bearer $TOKEN'
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({
        "source" : "Hello, world!",
        "title"  : "User:<my username>/Sandbox",
        "comment": "Creating a test page with the REST API"
      }),
      'Api-User-Agent': 'MediaWiki REST API docs examples/0.1 (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:REST_API)'
    }
  );
  const data = await response.json();
  return data;
}

async function fetchAsync()
{
  try {
    let result = await doFetch();
    console.log(result);
  } catch( err ) {
    console.error( err.message );
  }
}

fetchAsync();