API:Blocks

This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation.

GET request to list currently-blocked users, in the same manner as Special:BlockList lists them.

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.12

API documentation

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

Special:ApiHelp/query+blocks

Example

Lists the 3 most recent blocks

GET request

Response

{
    "batchcomplete": "",
    "continue": {
        "bkcontinue": "20190226192632|8865878",
        "continue": "-||"
    },
    "query": {
        "blocks": [
            {
                "id": 8865881,
                "user": "168.11.166.47",
                "by": "Gilliam",
                "timestamp": "2019-02-26T19:28:56Z",
                "expiry": "2020-02-26T19:28:56Z",
                "reason": "{{school block}}",
                "rangestart": "168.11.166.47",
                "rangeend": "168.11.166.47",
                "anononly": "",
                "nocreate": "",
                "allowusertalk": ""
            },
            {
                "id": 8865880,
                "user": "64.125.67.43",
                "by": "Gilliam",
                "timestamp": "2019-02-26T19:27:44Z",
                "expiry": "2019-03-01T19:27:44Z",
                "reason": "part of mass attack",
                "rangestart": "64.125.67.43",
                "rangeend": "64.125.67.43",
                "anononly": "",
                "nocreate": "",
                "allowusertalk": ""
            }
            ...
        ]
    }
}

Sample code

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    get_blocked_users.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Blocks` module: GET request to list recent blocked users

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

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

PARAMS = {
    "action": "query",
    "bklimit": "3",
    "list": "blocks",
    "bkprop": "id|user|by|timestamp|expiry|reason|range|flags",
    "format": "json"
}

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

print(DATA['query']['blocks'])

PHP

<?php
/*
    get_blocked_users.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Blocks` module: GET request to list recent blocked users.

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "format" => "json",
    "list" => "blocks",
    "bklimit" => "3",
    "bkprop" => "id|user|by|timestamp|expiry|reason|range|flags"
];

$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 );
var_dump( $result["query"]["blocks"] );

JavaScript

/*
    get_blocked_users.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Blocks` module: GET request to list recent blocked users.

    MIT License
*/

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

var params = {
    action: "query",
    list: "blocks",
    bklimit: "3",
    bkprop: "id|user|by|timestamp|expiry|reason|range|flags",
    format: "json"
};

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

fetch(url)
    .then(function(response){return response.json();})
    .then(function(response) {console.log(response.query.blocks);})
    .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});

MediaWiki JS

/*
	get_blocked_users.js

	MediaWiki API Demos
	Demo of `Blocks` module: GET request to list recent blocked users.

	MIT License
*/

var params = {
		action: 'query',
		list: 'blocks',
		bklimit: '3',
		bkprop: 'id|user|by|timestamp|expiry|reason|range|flags',
		format: 'json'
	},
	api = new mw.Api();

api.get( params ).done( function ( data ) {
	console.log( data.query.blocks );
} );

Additional notes

This module cannot be used as a generator.

Parameter history

v1.19: Introduced bkshow
v1.18: Introduced userid