API:Info

This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation.

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.8

GET request to display basic information about the given page(s).

API documentation

The following documentation is the output of Special:ApiHelp/query+info, automatically generated by the pre-release version of MediaWiki that is running on this site (MediaWiki.org).

prop=info (in)

(main | query | info)

This module requires read rights.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Get basic page information.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Info

Specific parameters:

Other general parameters are available.

inprop

Which additional properties to get:

protection: List the protection level of each page.
talkid: The page ID of the talk page for each non-talk page.
watched: List the watched status of each page.
watchers: The number of watchers, if allowed.
visitingwatchers: The number of watchers of each page who have visited recent edits to that page, if allowed.
notificationtimestamp: The watchlist notification timestamp of each page.
subjectid: The page ID of the parent page for each talk page.
associatedpage: The prefixed title of the associated subject or talk page.
url: Gives a full URL, an edit URL, and the canonical URL for each page.
readable: Deprecated. Whether the user can read this page. Use intestactions=read instead.
preload: Deprecated. Gives the text returned by EditFormPreloadText. Use preloadcontent instead, which supports other kinds of preloaded text too.
preloadcontent: Gives the content to be shown in the editor when the page does not exist or while adding a new section.
editintro: Gives the intro messages that should be shown to the user while editing this page or revision, as HTML.
displaytitle: Gives the manner in which the page title is actually displayed.
varianttitles: Gives the display title in all variants of the site content language.
linkclasses: Gives the additional CSS classes (e.g. link colors) used for links to this page if they were to appear on the page named by inlinkcontext.

Values (separate with | or alternative): associatedpage, displaytitle, editintro, linkclasses, notificationtimestamp, preloadcontent, protection, subjectid, talkid, url, varianttitles, visitingwatchers, watched, watchers, preload, readable

inlinkcontext

The context title to use when determining extra CSS classes (e.g. link colors) when inprop contains linkclasses.

Type: page title

Accepts non-existent pages.

Default: MediaWiki

intestactions

Test whether the current user can perform certain actions on the page.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).

intestactionsdetail

Detail level for intestactions. Use the main module's errorformat and errorlang parameters to control the format of the messages returned.

boolean: Return a boolean value for each action.
full: Return messages describing why the action is disallowed, or an empty array if it is allowed.
quick: Like full but skipping expensive checks.

One of the following values: boolean, full, quick

Default: boolean

intestactionsautocreate

Test whether performing intestactions would automatically create a temporary account.

Type: boolean (details)

inpreloadcustom

Title of a custom page to use as preloaded content.

Only used when inprop contains preloadcontent.

inpreloadparams

Parameters for the custom page being used as preloaded content.

Only used when inprop contains preloadcontent.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).

inpreloadnewsection

Return preloaded content for a new section on the page, rather than a new page.

Only used when inprop contains preloadcontent.

Type: boolean (details)

ineditintrostyle

Some intro messages come with optional wrapper frames. Use moreframes to include them or lessframes to omit them.

Only used when inprop contains editintro.

One of the following values: lessframes, moreframes

Default: moreframes

ineditintroskip

List of intro messages to remove from the response. Use this if a specific message is not relevant to your tool, or if the information is conveyed in a different way.

Only used when inprop contains editintro.

Separate values with | or alternative.

Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).

ineditintrocustom

Title of a custom page to use as an additional intro message.

Only used when inprop contains editintro.

incontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.

Examples:

Get information about the page MediaWiki.: api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=MediaWiki [open in sandbox]
Get general and protection information about the page MediaWiki.: api.php?action=query&prop=info&inprop=protection&titles=MediaWiki [open in sandbox]

Example

GET request

Get info about the w:Albert Einstein page, including the talk page's id, and URLs associated with the page

api.php?action=query&titles=Albert%20Einstein&prop=info&inprop=url|talkid [try in ApiSandbox]

Response

{
    "batchcomplete": "",
    "query": {
        "pages": {
            "736": {
                "pageid": 736,
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Albert Einstein",
                "contentmodel": "wikitext",
                "pagelanguage": "en",
                "pagelanguagehtmlcode": "en",
                "pagelanguagedir": "ltr",
                "touched": "2018-12-13T11:58:27Z",
                "lastrevid": 873382746,
                "length": 154728,
                "talkid": 21091085,
                "fullurl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein",
                "editurl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Einstein&action=edit",
                "canonicalurl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein"
            }
        }
    }
}

Sample code

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    get_info.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Info` module: Send a GET request to display information about a page.

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"

PARAMS = {
    "action": "query",
    "format": "json",
    "titles": "Albert Einstein",
    "prop": "info",
    "inprop": "url|talkid"
}

R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS)
DATA = R.json()

PAGES = DATA["query"]["pages"]

for k, v in PAGES.items():
    print(v["title"] + " has " + str(v["length"]) + " bytes.")

PHP

<?php
/*
    get_info.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Info` module: Send a GET request to display information about a page.

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "format" => "json",
    "titles" => "Albert Einstein",
    "prop" => "info",
    "inprop" => "url|talkid"
];

$url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params );

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$result = json_decode( $output, true );

foreach( $result["query"]["pages"] as $k => $v ) {
    echo( $v["title"] . " has " . $v["length"] . " bytes." . "\n" );
}

JavaScript

/*
    get_info.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Info` module: Send a GET request to display information about a page.

    MIT License
*/

var url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; 

var params = {
    action: "query",
    format: "json",
    titles: "Albert Einstein",
    prop: "info",
    inprop: "url|talkid"
};

url = url + "?origin=*";
Object.keys(params).forEach(function(key){url += "&" + key + "=" + params[key];});

fetch(url)
    .then(function(response){return response.json();})
    .then(function(response) {
        var pages = response.query.pages;
        for (var p in pages) {
            console.log(pages[p].title + " has " + pages[p].length + " bytes.");
        }
    })
    .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});

MediaWiki JS

/*
	get_info.js

	MediaWiki API Demos
	Demo of `Info` module: Send a GET request to display information about a page.

	MIT License
*/

var params = {
		action: 'query',
		format: 'json',
		titles: 'Albert Einstein',
		prop: 'info',
		inprop: 'url|talkid'
	},
	api = new mw.Api();

api.get( params ).done( function ( data ) {
	var pages = data.query.pages,
		p;
	for ( p in pages ) {
		console.log( pages[ p ].title + ' has ' + pages[ p ].length + ' bytes.' );
	}
} );

Parameter history

v1.41: Deprecated preload
v1.32: Deprecated readable
v1.27: Introduced visitingwatchers
v1.25: Introduced intestactions
v1.24: Deprecated intoken
v1.21: Introduced watchers
v1.20: Introduced notificationtimestamp
v1.17: Introduced displaytitle
v1.16: Introduced watched, preload
v1.14: Introduced url, readable
v1.13: Introduced talkid, subjectid
v1.11: Introduced inprop, protection, intoken

Additional notes

Pages in the special page namespace, such as Watchlist , are not supported.
This page covers the list module, info. Please see the Parameters to index page if you are seeking details on action=info.

API documentation

prop=info (in)

Example

GET request

Response

Sample code

Python

PHP

JavaScript

MediaWiki JS

Parameter history

Additional notes

See also