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Client libraries contain code that developers can use to help with common and basic tasks, so that they don't have to write the code from scratch when their projects interact with an API.
This page contains a set of lists, by language, of up-to three recommended client libraries that can be used with the MediaWiki Action API.
The recommendations are based on evaluations using API:Client code/Gold standard .
API client libraries [ edit ]
Last activity
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Dates and version numbers were updated on 2019-06-19.
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BotWikiAwk
Framework and libraries for creating bots. Includes example bots.
27 March 2019 (2019-03-27 )
Wikiget
Awk CLI program to interface with MediaWiki API for read/write including OAuth.
8 June 2019 (2019-06-08 )
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bash-mediawiki
An example with Curl that allows easy editing/uploading of a wiki through the MediaWiki API.
17 August 2021 (2021-08-17 )
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libmediawiki
A library that allows easy editing of a wiki through the MediaWiki API.
9 September 2017 (2017-09-09 )
Common Lisp [ edit ]
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cl-mediawiki
A Common Lisp wrapper for the MediaWiki API.
10 November 2016 (2016-11-10 )
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go-mediawiki
Go wrapper for the MediaWiki API.
v0.1
4 November 2013 (2013-11-04 )
8 February 2017 (2017-02-08 )
go-mwclient
Wrapper for the MediaWiki API (supports maxlag, query continuations, OAuth).
v1.2.0
3 June 2020 (2020-06-03 )
3 June 2020 (2020-06-03 )
Haskell [ edit ]
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haskell mediawiki
A complete Haskell binding to the MediaWiki API letting you programmatically access (read and write) MediaWiki content.
0.2.6
20 November 2013 (2013-11-20 )
20 November 2013 (2013-11-20 )
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JavaWikiBotFramework
A library to retrieve data from and maintain MediaWiki-based wikis such as Wikipedia.
4.0.0
13 September 2016 (2016-09-13 )
15 February 2019 (2019-02-15 )
jwiki
A library for effortlessly interacting with Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
1.8.0
14 April 2020 (2020-04-14 )
6 May 2020 (2020-05-06 )
Bliki Engine
Can convert wikicode to HTML, DocBook or PDF. Has a helper library for API calls.
27 April 2019 (2019-04-27 )
More Java libraries available at API:Client_code/All#Java .
JavaScript [ edit ]
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mwn (Node.js)
Mwn is a modern and feature-rich API client with support for both JavaScript and TypeScript. Has classes for conveniently working with page titles and parsing wikitext. Supports both OAuth and BotPasswords.
v1.11.4
10 April 2020 (2020-04-10 )
29 August 2021 (2021-08-29 )
mwbot (Node.js)
MWBot uses the Promise pattern and other ES6 methodologies, optimised for creating bots that make edits. Works with any MediaWiki site.
v2.0.0
30 October 2017 (2017-10-30 )
1 February 2021 (2021-02-01 )
nodemw (Node.js)
A generic MediaWiki API client for Node.js.
v0.16.0
16 September 2018 (2018-09-16 )
29 October 2021 (2021-10-29 )
wikiapi (Node.js)
A simple way to access MediaWiki API via JavaScript with simple wikitext parser.
v1.16.0
1 October 2020 (2020-10-01 )
22 October 2021 (2021-10-22 )
mediawiki.api (browser)
Generic MediaWiki API client for client-side JavaScript. It ships with MediaWiki core as a ResourceLoader module bundle. It abstracts some high-level concepts and provides a generic client for other queries.
Maintained as part of MediaWiki.
In-wiki JavaScript clients:
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mwapilib2
A layer overtop of the requests. Make JS gadgets easier.
25 September 2016 (2016-09-25 )
JsMwApi
A convenience wrapper around raw requests, with some helpers for editing and parsing.
11 June 2014 (2014-06-11 )
More JavaScript libraries available at API:Client_code/All#JavaScript .
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dtMediaWiki
Makes query (tokens, userinfo), clientlogin, upload, and logout calls. It handles HTTPS requests and cookies and can be used to upload files to Wikimedia Commons.
20 September 2018 (2018-09-20 )
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MatWiki
A preliminary (as of Feb 2019) MATLAB R2016b(9.1.x) client supporting just bot-logins & semantic #ask queries.
v1.0.0
19 February 2019 (2019-02-19 )
19 February 2019 (2019-02-19 )
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WikiFunctions
Library with classes for editing and getting lists of pages via the API, used by AutoWikiBrowser .
6.0.0.1
15 September 2018 (2018-09-15 )
16 June 2019 (2019-06-16 )
LinqToWiki
Strongly typed library for accessing most of MediaWiki API, with support for autocompletion.
1.5.0
7 May 2015 (2015-05-07 )
7 May 2015 (2015-05-07 )
WikiClientLibrary
A .NET Standard & asynchronous MediaWiki API client library for wiki sites. The library also supports Flow/Wikibase/Wikia-specific API.
v0.7.0-int.7
16 November 2019 (2019-11-16 )
16 November 2019 (2019-11-16 )
More .NET libraries available at API:Client_code/All#.NET .
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ocaml-mediawiki
A high-level binding for the MediaWiki API written in OCaml.
29 August 2012 (2012-08-29 )
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mediawiki-api-base
Library for basic MediaWiki api use.
2.4.0
2 November 2017 (2017-11-02 )
9 July 2019 (2019-07-09 )
mediawiki-api
A simple library for interacting with the MediaWiki API.
0.7.2
20 November 2017 (2017-11-20 )
6 April 2019 (2019-04-06 )
wikibase-api
Library for querying Wikidata .
0.7
4 July 2016 (2016-07-04 )
17 August 2018 (2018-08-17 )
More PHP libraries available at API:Client_code/All#PHP .
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Pywikibot
A collection of python scripts and a powerful library for bot writing. (Git repository ) (#pywikibot connect ) (Evaluation ).
7.3.0
21 May 2022 (2022-05-21 )
May 2022 (2022-05 )
mwclient
Python library that makes most of the API functions accessible. (PyPI ) (Evaluation ).
0.10.1
28 May 2020 (2020-05-28 )
26 September 2021 (2021-09-26 )
pwiki
A Python library for developing bots/tools, focused on ease of use and simplicity.
1.1.1
15 October 2021 (2021-10-15 )
28 May 2022 (2022-05-28 )
wiki-scripts
Framework for writing bots, maintenance scripts or performing data analysis.
1.2
31 December 2017 (2017-12-31 )
13 June 2019 (2019-06-13 )
Simple Python wrappers for no-abstraction interfaces to the MediaWiki API and basic session handling:
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pywikiapi
A minimalistic library that handles some of the core MediaWiki API complexities like handling continuations, login, errors, and warnings, but does not impose any additional abstraction layers.
1.3.2
13 April 2019 (2019-04-13 )
13 April 2019 (2019-04-13 )
Wikipedia
A Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia.
v1.1
24 December 2013 (2013-12-24 )
11 November 2016 (2016-11-11 )
wikitools
Provides several layers of abstraction around the API. Doesn't support Python 3.
0.41
7 June 2015 (2015-06-07 )
28 August 2016 (2016-08-28 )
More Python libraries available at API:Client_code/All#Python .
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WikipediR
A wrapper for the MediaWiki API, aimed particularly at the Wikimedia 'production' wikis, such as Wikipedia. Can be used to retrieve page text, information about users or the history of pages, and elements of the category tree.
1.5.0
15 February 2017 (2017-02-15 )
15 February 2017 (2017-02-15 )
More Ruby libraries available at API:Client_code/All#Ruby .
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Wikibase RS
Rust library to talk to the Wikibase API and serialize data into Rust data structures.
0.37
19 June 2019 (2019-06-19 )
19 June 2019 (2019-06-19 )
mediawiki_rust
A MediaWiki client library in Rust.
16 November 2020 (2020-11-16 )
More Rust libraries available at API:Client_code/All#Rust .
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scalawiki
MediaWiki client in Scala.
0.6.3
17 September 2020 (2020-09-17 )
28 September 2019 (2019-09-28 )
dbpedia extraction framework
Data extraction framework for DBpedia with support Wiki source retrived via MediaWiki API.
DBpedia_2015-10
25 July 2016 (2016-07-25 )
13 April 2019 (2019-04-13 )
scmw
Simple MediaWiki API wrapper for needs of Commonist image upload tool.
v-0.140.0
22 December 2017 (2017-12-22 )
22 December 2017 (2017-12-22 )
See also [ edit ]