Extension:SemanticRESTAPI

MediaWiki extensions manual

SemanticRESTAPI Release status: stable
Implementation	API
Description	Get data from Semantic MediaWiki through the REST API
Author(s)	Sophivorustalk
Latest version	2.0 (2023-11-01)
MediaWiki	1.39+
PHP	7+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (GitHub) commit history repository contributors (GitHub) code review
Example	[1]
Quarterly downloads	0
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The Semantic REST API extension adds an endpoint to the MediaWiki REST API that gives access to semantic data from Semantic MediaWiki.

Installation

• Install Extension:SemanticMediaWiki
• Download and move the extracted SemanticRESTAPI folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/SemanticRESTAPI
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'SemanticRESTAPI' );
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Usage

Once installed, simply browse to the following URL pattern to get a JSON with all the semantic data of a given page:

https://www.example.com/w/rest.php/v1/page/Title_of_the_page/semantic

For example, compare this and this.

See also

• Extension:SemanticMediaWiki - Store and query semantic data
• Extension:Semantic Extra Special Properties - Add several standard semantic properties to every page