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I tested this code on Wiktionary and it doesn't work.

Can you be more specific about what you tried and what isn't working? I just tested it and it works for me.

I copied the code from the above link verbatim into the Wiktionary user script sandbox, and called mw.notify on the return value. Error in the console: .

note that even though the code says

new mw.Api();

it's not enough to load module mediawiki.api: you need to load mediawiki.api.parse, like so:

1 mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.api.parse' )
2 .done( function() {
3     new mw.Api().parse( {
4         // like the example.
5     });
6 }); // using..done

note that loading this module, will automatically load its dependencies i.e. mediawiki.api, so you don't have to load it explicitly, though it won't harm anything to do so anyway.

peace.

Thanks! That solved the problem. I'm puzzled, because I had loaded mw.api, but the function parse was still not present in the mw.Api object...

mediawiki.api has several such sub-modules, e.g., edit, watch, options, and some more (and prolly more to come).

each brings some specific set of functions, to make the interaction with specific area of the api more convenient to use.

to use them, you need to load the one you need specifically. loading any of them pulls mediawiki.api with it.

peace.