API:REST API

The MediaWiki REST API provides access to wiki content and functionality through a RESTful, HTTP interface. It supports operations like searching, getting and transforming wiki pages, and accessing page history.

Get started

Learn about the API and get started making basic API calls.

• Quick start
• Access and stability policies

API reference

Interact with the API and find documentation for each endpoint.

• Special:RestSandbox on any Wikimedia wiki (English Wikipedia example)
• API reference
• Status codes and error messages

Tutorials

Explore working examples of how you can use the API.

• Search Wikipedia articles
• Explore page history
• Reuse media files

User guides

Find instructions for tasks related to this API.

• Authenticate with OAuth
• Build REST APIs for extensions
• Make CORS requests

API features

The MediaWiki REST API offers the following key features:

• Build apps and scripts that access content from Wikipedia, or any other Wikimedia project.
• Get data in JSON or HTML format.
• Define extension-specific API endpoints within MediaWiki extensions.

Compared to the MediaWiki Action API , the REST API offers:

• A smaller, more streamlined set of operations and resources.
• Better performance, and cached responses to reduce system load on Wikimedia projects.
• Simple, consistent URL structure for endpoints.

To learn more about how the MediaWiki REST API compares to other available APIs, see API .

Get help

• 由MediaWiki Interfaces Team维护。
• 即时聊天（IRC）：#mediawiki-core ^在线
• 问题追踪器：Phabricator MediaWiki-REST-API（报告问题）

Contribute

这些文档是基于MediaWiki核心源代码手动编写的。 欢迎指正和补充！ To share a tutorial or app that uses the MediaWiki REST API, add a comment on the Talk page.

Client libraries

• Rust

APIs for Wikimedia wikis

For information about other APIs available for Wikimedia wikis, see Wikimedia APIs . See recent changes to all Wikimedia APIs at Wikimedia APIs/Changelog .