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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
<paraminfo>
<modules>
<module classname="ApiParse" description="Parses content and returns parser output. See the various prop-Modules of action=query to get information from the currentversion of a page. There are several ways to specify the text to parse: 1) Specify a page or revision, using page, pageid, or oldid. 2) Specify content explicitly, using text, title, and contentmodel. 3) Specify only a summary to parse. prop should be given an empty value. Extended by MobileFrontend" examples="Parse a page api.php?action=parse&page=Project:Sandbox Parse wikitext api.php?action=parse&text={{Project:Sandbox}}&contentmodel=wikitext Parse wikitext, specifying the page title api.php?action=parse&text={{PAGENAME}}&title=Test Parse a summary api.php?action=parse&summary=Some+[[link]]&prop=" version="" prefix="" readrights="" name="parse">
<helpurls>
<helpurl>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext#parse</helpurl>
</helpurls>
<allexamples>
<example description="Parse a page" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=parse&page=Project:Sandbox</example>
<example description="Parse wikitext" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=parse&text={{Project:Sandbox}}&contentmodel=wikitext</example>
<example description="Parse wikitext, specifying the page title" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=parse&text={{PAGENAME}}&title=Test</example>
<example description="Parse a summary" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=parse&summary=Some+[[link]]&prop=</example>
</allexamples>
<parameters>
<param name="title" description="Title of page the text belongs to. If omitted, contentmodel must be specified, and "API" will be used as the title" type="string" />
<param name="text" description="Text to parse. Use title or contentmodel to control the content model" type="string" />
<param name="summary" description="Summary to parse" type="string" />
<param name="page" description="Parse the content of this page. Cannot be used together with text and title" type="string" />
<param name="pageid" description="Parse the content of this page. Overrides page" type="integer" />
<param name="redirects" description="If the page or the pageid parameter is set to a redirect, resolve it" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="oldid" description="Parse the content of this revision. Overrides page and pageid" type="integer" />
<param name="prop" description="Which pieces of information to get text - Gives the parsed text of the wikitext langlinks - Gives the language links in the parsed wikitext categories - Gives the categories in the parsed wikitext categorieshtml - Gives the HTML version of the categories links - Gives the internal links in the parsed wikitext templates - Gives the templates in the parsed wikitext images - Gives the images in the parsed wikitext externallinks - Gives the external links in the parsed wikitext sections - Gives the sections in the parsed wikitext revid - Adds the revision ID of the parsed page displaytitle - Adds the title of the parsed wikitext headitems - Gives items to put in the <head> of the page headhtml - Gives parsed <head> of the page modules - Gives the ResourceLoader modules used on the page iwlinks - Gives interwiki links in the parsed wikitext wikitext - Gives the original wikitext that was parsed properties - Gives various properties defined in the parsed wikitext limitreportdata - Gives the limit report in a structured way. Gives no data, when disablepp is set. limitreporthtml - Gives the HTML version of the limit report. Gives no data, when disablepp is set." default="text|langlinks|categories|links|templates|images|externallinks|sections|revid|displaytitle|iwlinks|properties" multi="" limit="50" lowlimit="50" highlimit="500">
<type>
<t>text</t>
<t>langlinks</t>
<t>categories</t>
<t>categorieshtml</t>
<t>links</t>
<t>templates</t>
<t>images</t>
<t>externallinks</t>
<t>sections</t>
<t>revid</t>
<t>displaytitle</t>
<t>headitems</t>
<t>headhtml</t>
<t>modules</t>
<t>iwlinks</t>
<t>wikitext</t>
<t>properties</t>
<t>limitreportdata</t>
<t>limitreporthtml</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="pst" description="Do a pre-save transform on the input before parsing it Only valid when used with text" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="onlypst" description="Do a pre-save transform (PST) on the input, but don't parse it Returns the same wikitext, after a PST has been applied. Only valid when used with text" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="effectivelanglinks" description="Includes language links supplied by extensions (for use with prop=langlinks)" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="uselang" description="Which language to parse the request in" type="string" />
<param name="section" description="Only retrieve the content of this section number" type="string" />
<param name="disablepp" description="Disable the PP Report from the parser output" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="disableeditsection" description="Disable edit section links from the parser output" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="generatexml" description="Generate XML parse tree (requires contentmodel=wikitext)" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="preview" description="Parse in preview mode" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="sectionpreview" description="Parse in section preview mode (enables preview mode too)" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="disabletoc" description="Disable table of contents in output" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="contentformat" description="Content serialization format used for the input text Only valid when used with text">
<type>
<t>text/x-wiki</t>
<t>text/javascript</t>
<t>text/css</t>
<t>text/plain</t>
<t>application/json</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="contentmodel" description="Content model of the input text. If omitted, title must be specified, and default will be the model of the specified title Only valid when used with text">
<type>
<t>wikitext</t>
<t>javascript</t>
<t>css</t>
<t>text</t>
<t>Campaign</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="mobileformat" description="Return parse output in a format suitable for mobile devices" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="noimages" description="Disable images in mobile output" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="mainpage" description="Apply mobile main page transformations" default="false" type="boolean" />
</parameters>
<errors>
<error code="readapidenied" info="You need read permission to use this module" />
<error code="params" info="The page parameter cannot be used together with the text and title parameters" />
<error code="missingrev" info="There is no revision ID oldid" />
<error code="permissiondenied" info="You don't have permission to view deleted revisions" />
<error code="missingtitle" info="The page you specified doesn't exist" />
<error code="nosuchsection" info="There is no section sectionnumber in page" />
<error code="nosuchpageid" info="There is no page with ID $1" />
<error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title "title"" />
<error code="parseerror" info="Failed to parse the given text." />
<error code="notwikitext" info="The requested operation is only supported on wikitext content." />
</errors>
</module>
</modules>
<querymodules>
<module classname="ApiQueryAllPages" description="Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace." examples="Simple Use Show a list of pages starting at the letter "B" api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apfrom=B Using as Generator Show info about 4 pages starting at the letter "T" api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=4&gapfrom=T&prop=info Show content of first 2 non-redirect pages beginning at "Re" api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=2&gapfilterredir=nonredirects&gapfrom=Re&prop=revisions&rvprop=content" version="" prefix="ap" readrights="" generator="" listresult="" name="allpages" querytype="list">
<helpurls>
<helpurl>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Allpages</helpurl>
</helpurls>
<allexamples>
<example description="Simple Use Show a list of pages starting at the letter "B"" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&list=allpages&apfrom=B</example>
<example description="Using as Generator Show info about 4 pages starting at the letter "T"" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=4&gapfrom=T&prop=info</example>
<example description="Show content of first 2 non-redirect pages beginning at "Re"" xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gaplimit=2&gapfilterredir=nonredirects&gapfrom=Re&prop=revisions&rvprop=content</example>
</allexamples>
<parameters>
<param name="from" description="The page title to start enumerating from" type="string" />
<param name="continue" description="When more results are available, use this to continue" type="string" />
<param name="to" description="The page title to stop enumerating at" type="string" />
<param name="prefix" description="Search for all page titles that begin with this value" type="string" />
<param name="namespace" description="The namespace to enumerate" default="0" type="namespace" />
<param name="filterredir" description="Which pages to list" default="all">
<type>
<t>all</t>
<t>redirects</t>
<t>nonredirects</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="minsize" description="Limit to pages with at least this many bytes" type="integer" />
<param name="maxsize" description="Limit to pages with at most this many bytes" type="integer" />
<param name="prtype" description="Limit to protected pages only" multi="" limit="50" lowlimit="50" highlimit="500">
<type>
<t>edit</t>
<t>move</t>
<t>upload</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="prlevel" description="The protection level (must be used with apprtype= parameter)" multi="" limit="50" lowlimit="50" highlimit="500">
<type>
<t />
<t>autoconfirmed</t>
<t>sysop</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="prfiltercascade" description="Filter protections based on cascadingness (ignored when apprtype isn't set)" default="all">
<type>
<t>cascading</t>
<t>noncascading</t>
<t>all</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="limit" description="How many total pages to return." default="10" type="limit" max="500" highmax="5000" min="1" />
<param name="dir" description="The direction in which to list" default="ascending">
<type>
<t>ascending</t>
<t>descending</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="filterlanglinks" description="Filter based on whether a page has langlinks Note that this may not consider langlinks added by extensions." default="all">
<type>
<t>withlanglinks</t>
<t>withoutlanglinks</t>
<t>all</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="prexpiry" description="Which protection expiry to filter the page on indefinite - Get only pages with indefinite protection expiry definite - Get only pages with a definite (specific) protection expiry all - Get pages with any protections expiry" default="all">
<type>
<t>indefinite</t>
<t>definite</t>
<t>all</t>
</type>
</param>
</parameters>
<props>
<prop name="">
<properties>
<property name="pageid" type="integer" />
<property name="ns" type="namespace" />
<property name="title" type="string" />
</properties>
</prop>
</props>
<errors>
<error code="badcontinue" info="Invalid continue param. You should pass the original value returned by the previous query" />
<error code="readapidenied" info="You need read permission to use this module" />
<error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title "title"" />
<error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title "key"" />
<error code="params" info="Use "gapfilterredir=nonredirects" option instead of "redirects" when using allpages as a generator" />
<error code="params" info="prlevel may not be used without prtype" />
</errors>
</module>
<module classname="ApiQuerySiteinfo" description="Return general information about the site." examples="api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general|namespaces|namespacealiases|statistics api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap&sifilteriw=local api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag&sishowalldb=" version="" prefix="si" readrights="" name="siteinfo" querytype="meta">
<helpurls>
<helpurl>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Meta#siteinfo_.2F_si</helpurl>
</helpurls>
<allexamples>
<example xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=general|namespaces|namespacealiases|statistics</example>
<example xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap&sifilteriw=local</example>
<example xml:space="preserve">api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=dbrepllag&sishowalldb=</example>
</allexamples>
<parameters>
<param name="prop" description="Which sysinfo properties to get: general - Overall system information namespaces - List of registered namespaces and their canonical names namespacealiases - List of registered namespace aliases specialpagealiases - List of special page aliases magicwords - List of magic words and their aliases statistics - Returns site statistics interwikimap - Returns interwiki map (optionally filtered, (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode)) dbrepllag - Returns database server with the highest replication lag usergroups - Returns user groups and the associated permissions extensions - Returns extensions installed on the wiki fileextensions - Returns list of file extensions allowed to be uploaded rightsinfo - Returns wiki rights (license) information if available restrictions - Returns information on available restriction (protection) types languages - Returns a list of languages MediaWiki supports(optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode) skins - Returns a list of all enabled skins extensiontags - Returns a list of parser extension tags functionhooks - Returns a list of parser function hooks showhooks - Returns a list of all subscribed hooks (contents of $wgHooks) variables - Returns a list of variable IDs protocols - Returns a list of protocols that are allowed in external links. defaultoptions - Returns the default values for user preferences." default="general" multi="" limit="50" lowlimit="50" highlimit="500">
<type>
<t>general</t>
<t>namespaces</t>
<t>namespacealiases</t>
<t>specialpagealiases</t>
<t>magicwords</t>
<t>interwikimap</t>
<t>dbrepllag</t>
<t>statistics</t>
<t>usergroups</t>
<t>extensions</t>
<t>fileextensions</t>
<t>rightsinfo</t>
<t>restrictions</t>
<t>languages</t>
<t>skins</t>
<t>extensiontags</t>
<t>functionhooks</t>
<t>showhooks</t>
<t>variables</t>
<t>protocols</t>
<t>defaultoptions</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="filteriw" description="Return only local or only nonlocal entries of the interwiki map">
<type>
<t>local</t>
<t>!local</t>
</type>
</param>
<param name="showalldb" description="List all database servers, not just the one lagging the most" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="numberingroup" description="Lists the number of users in user groups" default="false" type="boolean" />
<param name="inlanguagecode" description="Language code for localised language names (best effort, use CLDR extension)" type="string" />
</parameters>
<errors>
<error code="readapidenied" info="You need read permission to use this module" />
<error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title "title"" />
<error code="invalidtitle" info="Bad title "key"" />
<error code="includeAllDenied" info="Cannot view all servers info unless $wgShowHostnames is true" />
</errors>
</module>
</querymodules>
</paraminfo>
</api>