GET request to fetch a list of all logged events as shown in Special:Log.
API documentation
The following documentation is the output of Special:ApiHelp/query+logevents, automatically generated by the pre-release version of MediaWiki that is running on this site (MediaWiki.org).
One of the following values: Can be empty, or abusefilter, abusefilter-protected-vars, abusefilterblockeddomainhit, abusefilterprivatedetails, block, checkuser-temporary-account, contentmodel, create, delete, gblblock, gblrename, gblrights, globalauth, import, ipinfo, liquidthreads, managetags, massmessage, merge, messagebundle, move, newsletter, newusers, notifytranslators, oath, pagelang, pagetranslation, patrol, protect, renameuser, rights, spamblacklist, suppress, tag, thanks, timedmediahandler, titleblacklist, translationreview, upload, urlshortener, usermerge
leaction
Filter log actions to only this action. Overrides letype. In the list of possible values, values with the asterisk wildcard such as action/* can have different strings after the slash (/).
{"batchcomplete":"","continue":{"continue":"-||","lecontinue":"20190606150600|99729503"},"query":{"logevents":[{"action":"create","comment":"added to WikiProject (via [[WP:JWB]])","logid":99729506,"logpage":60974819,"ns":15,"pageid":60974819,"params":{},"timestamp":"2019-06-06T15:06:07Z","title":"Category talk:Electronic albums by Senegalese artists","type":"create","user":"Jevansen"}...]}}
Sample code
Python
#!/usr/bin/python3""" get_logevents.py MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Logevents` module: Get the three most recent logevents. MIT License"""importrequestsS=requests.Session()URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"PARAMS={"action":"query","format":"json","list":"logevents","lelimit":"3"}R=S.get(url=URL,params=PARAMS)DATA=R.json()LOGS=DATA["query"]["logevents"]forlinLOGS:print("There is "+l["type"]+" log for page "+l["title"])
PHP
<?php/* get_logevents.php MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Logevents` module: Get the three most recent logevents. MIT License*/$endPoint="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";$params=["action"=>"query","format"=>"json","list"=>"logevents","lelimit"=>"3"];$url=$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"]["logevents"]as$k=>$v){echo("There is ".$v["type"]." log for page ".$v["title"]."\n");}
JavaScript
/* get_logevents.js MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Logevents` module: Get the three most recent logevents. MIT License*/varurl="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";varparams={action:"query",format:"json",list:"logevents",lelimit:"3"};url=url+"?origin=*";Object.keys(params).forEach(function(key){url+="&"+key+"="+params[key];});fetch(url).then(function(response){returnresponse.json();}).then(function(response){varlogs=response.query.logevents;for(varlinlogs){console.log("There is "+logs[l].type+" log for page "+logs[l].title);}}).catch(function(error){console.log(error);});
MediaWiki JS
/* get_logevents.js MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Logevents` module: Get the three most recent logevents. MIT License*/varparams={action:'query',format:'json',list:'logevents',lelimit:'3'},api=newmw.Api();api.get(params).done(function(data){varlogs=data.query.logevents,l;for(linlogs){console.log('There is '+logs[l].type+' log for page '+logs[l].title);}});
Possible errors
Code
Info
leparam_user
User name username not found.
leparam_title
Bad title "title". This happens when you set letitle to an invalid title.
For autoblock unblock entries, the title returned is shown as "User:$blockid". This is not a userpage, but just the way it is stored. See task T19781.
When userid is specified for account creation events, the userid of the creating user is returned. When absent, the userid returned is that of the created account. See task T73020.
