User:Catrope/Wikimania/API requests

For how to do POST requests with jQuery, see this.

Main page with docs

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

Information about the wiki

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general%7Cnamespaces%7Cnamespacealiases
• http://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general%7Cnamespaces%7Cnamespacealiases
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=groups%7Crights

Title normalization

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Image:Wiki.png%7Cfoo_bar_baz%7CTalk:Talk:Foo
• http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Image:Wiki.png%7Cfoo_bar_baz%7CTalk:Talk:Foo
• http://es.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Image:Wiki.png%7Cfoo_bar_baz%7CTalk:Talk:Foo

Redirect resolution

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=main_page&redirects
• http://prototype.wikimedia.org/s/api.php?action=query&titles=foo&redirects

Information about pages

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=info

Running multiple queries

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=info%7Crevisions

Limits and continuations

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=info%7Crevisions&rvlimit=5
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=info%7Crevisions&rvlimit=5&rvstartid=273421236
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=info%7Crevisions&rvlimit=max
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=info%7Crevisions&rvlimit=max&rvprop=content

Image information

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.png&prop=imageinfo
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.png&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.png&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url&iiurlwidth=200
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.png&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url&iiurlwidth=137

Lists of pages

• http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=5
• http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=5&apnamespace=2
• http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=5&apnamespace=2&apprefix=Catrope/

Generators

• http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&prop=revisions
• http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=5&gapnamespace=2&gapprefix=Catrope/&prop=revisions
• http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=5&gapnamespace=2&gapprefix=Catrope/&prop=revisions&rvprop=content

Editing pages

• Get token and basetimestamp
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=User:Catrope/Sandbox&prop=info%7Crevisions&intoken=edit
• The actual edit (needs POST request)
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=edit&title=User:Catrope/Sandbox&text=IT%20WORKS!&summary=API%20demonstration%20at%20Wikimania&token=tokenGoesHere&basetimestamp=timestampGoesHere
• Appending text to pages
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=edit&title=WP:Sandbox&appendtext=API%20edit%20rules&summary=API%20demonstration%20at%20Wikimania&token=tokenGoesHere