Core REST API

Discover and interact with free knowledge from across Wikimedia projects.

Status	stable
Access	public
Projects and languages	All projects and languages
Framework	REST

API reference

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Sample call

# Get the HTML version of the Earth article on English Wikipedia
$ curl https://api.wikimedia.org/core/v1/wikipedia/en/page/Earth/html

Topics

• Reusing free content
• Tools and bots
• Security
• Conditional requests

Code samples

• Searching for Wikipedia articles using Python
• Reusing free images and media files with Python

How to report a bug

Create an account on Wikimedia Phabricator, and tag the task with MediaWiki-REST-API.

How to get help

Leave a comment on the discussion page.

How to edit the docs

The API reference is written manually based on the MediaWiki Core source code. Visit the contributing guide to get started editing the API Portal.

Changelog

March 11, 2022

The search endpoints now return a matched_title property to handle redirected pages.