MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page
action=paraminfo
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Obtain information about API modules.
- modules
List of module names (values of the action and format parameters, or main). Can specify submodules with a +, or all submodules with +*, or all submodules recursively with +**.
- Separate values with | or alternative.
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
- helpformat
Format of help strings.
- One of the following values: html en none en raw en wikitext
- Default: none
- querymodules
- Deprecated.
List of query module names (value of prop, meta or list parameter). Use modules=query+foo instead of querymodules=foo.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): allcategories en alldeletedrevisions en allfileusages en allimages en alllinks en allmessages en allpages en allredirects en allrevisions en alltransclusions en allusers en authmanagerinfo en automatictranslationdenselanguages en backlinks en betafeatures en blocks en categories en categoryinfo en categorymembers en codexicons en contenttranslation en contenttranslationcorpora en contenttranslationfavoritesuggestions en contributors en cxdeletedtranslations en cxpublishedtranslations en cxtranslatorstats en deletedrevisions en deletedrevs en duplicatefiles en embeddedin en extlinks en exturlusage en filearchive en filerepoinfo en fileusage en globalpreferences en imageinfo en images en imageusage en info en iwbacklinks en iwlinks en langbacklinks en langlinks en langlinkscount en languageinfo en links en linkshere en logevents en mystashedfiles en pageimages en pagepropnames en pageprops en pageswithprop en prefixsearch en protectedtitles en querypage en random en recentchanges en redirects en revisions en search en siteinfo en stashimageinfo en tags en templates en tokens en trackingcategories en transcludedin en usercontribs en userinfo en users en watchlist en watchlistraw
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
- mainmodule
- Deprecated.
Get information about the main (top-level) module as well. Use modules=main instead.
- pagesetmodule
- Deprecated.
Get information about the pageset module (providing titles= and friends) as well.
- formatmodules
- Deprecated.
List of format module names (value of format parameter). Use modules instead.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): json en jsonfm en none en php en phpfm en rawfm en xml en xmlfm
- Show info for action=parse, format=jsonfm, action=query&list=allpages, and action=query&meta=siteinfo.
- api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=parse|phpfm|query%2Ballpages|query%2Bsiteinfo [open in sandbox]
- Show info for all submodules of action=query.
- api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=query%2B* [open in sandbox]