MediaWiki version:
≥ 1.11

GET request to list pages that link to a certain URL, like Special:Linksearch.

API documentation

Special:ApiHelp/query+exturlusage

Example

GET request

Get a list of pages linking to slashdot.org

Response

{
    "batchcomplete": "",
    "continue": {
        "eucontinue": "http://org.slashdot./|169423",
        "continue": "-||"
    },
    "query": {
        "exturlusage": [
            {
                "pageid": 533948,
                "ns": 2,
                "title": "User:Peter Ellis",
                "url": "http://slashdot.org"
            },
            {
                "pageid": 3274,
                "ns": 2,
                "title": "User:Alexdb",
                "url": "http://slashdot.org/"
            },
            {
                "pageid": 36471,
                "ns": 2,
                "title": "User:Joao",
                "url": "http://slashdot.org/"
            }
            ...
        ]
    }
}

Sample code

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    get_exturlusage.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Exturlusage` module: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

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

PARAMS = {
    "action": "query",
    "format": "json",
    "list": "exturlusage",
    "euquery": "slashdot.org"
}

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

EXTURLS = DATA["query"]["exturlusage"]

for exturl in EXTURLS:
    print("Page " + exturl["title"] + " has " + exturl["url"] + " url.")

PHP

<?php
/*
    get_exturlusage.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Exturlusage` module: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "format" => "json",
    "list" => "exturlusage",
    "euquery" => "slashdot.org"
];

$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"]["exturlusage"] as $k => $v ) {
    echo( "Page " . $v["title"] . " has " . $v["url"] . " url. \n" );
}

JavaScript

/*
    get_exturlusage.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Exturlusage` module: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.

    MIT License
*/

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

var params = {
    action: "query",
    format: "json",
    list: "exturlusage",
    euquery: "slashdot.org"
};

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 exturls = response.query.exturlusage;
        for (var exturl in exturls) {
            console.log("Page " + exturls[exturl].title + " has " + exturls[exturl].url + " url.");
        }
    })
    .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});

MediaWiki JS

/*
	get_exturlusage.js

	MediaWiki API Demos
	Demo of `Exturlusage` module: Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.

	MIT License
*/

var params = {
		action: 'query',
		format: 'json',
		list: 'exturlusage',
		euquery: 'slashdot.org'
	},
	api = new mw.Api();

api.get( params ).done( function ( data ) {
	var exturls = data.query.exturlusage,
		exturl;
	for ( exturl in exturls ) {
		console.log( 'Page ' + exturls[ exturl ].title + ' has ' + exturls[ exturl ].url + ' url.' );
	}
} );

Possible errors

Code Info
unknown_euprotocol Wrong property for protocol parameter (use value from the list of supported protocols)
badcontinue Invalid continue param. You should pass the original value returned by the previous query.

Parameter history

  • v1.21: Introduced euexpandurl

See also

  • API:Backlinks - lists links to a given page.
  • API:Links - retrieves links on a given page or pages.
  • API:Iwlinks - Find interwiki links on a given page (i.e, meta pages, special pages).
  • API:Extlinks - Find all external links on a given page.
  • API:Langlinks - Get a list of language links from the given page. Language links represent translations.
  • API:Langbacklinks - Get a list of pages that contains a given language link.
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