MediaWiki version:
≥ 1.8

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

API documentation

Special:ApiHelp/query+info

Example

GET request

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

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

  • v1.27: 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 {{ll|Special pages|special page}} namespace, such as Watchlist, are not supported.
  • This page covers the list module, info. Please see the {{ll|Manual:Parameters to index.php#Actions|Parameters to index}} page if you are seeking details on action=info.

See also

  • Action=info - a separate module used by MediaWiki's own Page information tool; much of the information it returns overlaps this module.
  • API:Pageterms displays any Wikidata terms, such as labels or descriptions, associated with a page. See the Wikidata site for more information on this special class of information.
  • API:Imageinfo - displays information specific to image files
  • API:Stashimageinfo - displays information about {{ll|Manual:UploadStash|stashed}} image files
  • API:Categoryinfo - displays information about categories, such as number of pages
  • API:Users - displays information about a list of users, such as their group membership or edit count
  • API:Parameter information - an API about other APIs, showing information about API parameters
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