MediaWiki API help
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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 ꠨ none ꠨ raw ꠨ 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 ꠨ alldeletedrevisions ꠨ allfileusages ꠨ allimages ꠨ alllinks ꠨ allmessages ꠨ allpages ꠨ allredirects ꠨ allrevisions ꠨ alltransclusions ꠨ allusers ꠨ authmanagerinfo ꠨ backlinks ꠨ blocks ꠨ categories ꠨ categoryinfo ꠨ categorymembers ꠨ codexicons ꠨ contributors ꠨ deletedrevisions ꠨ deletedrevs ꠨ duplicatefiles ꠨ embeddedin ꠨ extlinks ꠨ exturlusage ꠨ filearchive ꠨ filerepoinfo ꠨ fileusage ꠨ gadgetcategories ꠨ gadgets ꠨ imageinfo ꠨ images ꠨ imageusage ꠨ info ꠨ iwbacklinks ꠨ iwlinks ꠨ langbacklinks ꠨ langlinks ꠨ languageinfo ꠨ links ꠨ linkshere ꠨ logevents ꠨ mystashedfiles ꠨ pagepropnames ꠨ pageprops ꠨ pageswithprop ꠨ prefixsearch ꠨ protectedtitles ꠨ querypage ꠨ random ꠨ recentchanges ꠨ redirects ꠨ revisions ꠨ search ꠨ siteinfo ꠨ stashimageinfo ꠨ tags ꠨ templates ꠨ tokens ꠨ trackingcategories ꠨ transcludedin ꠨ usercontribs ꠨ userinfo ꠨ users ꠨ watchlist ꠨ 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 ꠨ jsonfm ꠨ none ꠨ php ꠨ phpfm ꠨ rawfm ꠨ xml ꠨ 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]