MediaWiki version:
≥ 1.17

GET request to list interwiki links from a given page.

API documentation

Special:ApiHelp/query+iwlinks

Example

GET request

Get a list of interwiki links from Albert Einstein.

Response

{
    "query": {
        "pages": [
            {
                "pageid": 736,
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Albert Einstein",
                "iwlinks": [
                    {
                        "prefix": "b",
                        "title": "Introduction_to_Astrophysics/Albert_Einstein"
                    },
                    {
                        "prefix": "c",
                        "title": "Special:Search/Albert_Einstein"
                    },
                    {
                        "prefix": "commons",
                        "title": "Special:Search/Albert_Einstein"
                    },
                    ...                   
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}

Sample code

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    python/get_iwlinks.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Iwlinks` module: Get the interwiki links from a given page.

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

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

PARAMS = {
    "action": "query",
    "format": "json",
    "prop": "iwlinks",
    "titles": "Albert Einstein"
}

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

PAGES = DATA["query"]["pages"]

for k, v in PAGES.items():
    print(v["iwlinks"])

PHP

<?php
/*
    get_iwlinks.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Iwlinks` module: Get the interwiki links from a given page.

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "format" => "json",
    "prop" => "iwlinks",
    "titles" => "Albert Einstein"
];

$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 ) {
    var_dump( $v["iwlinks"] );
}

JavaScript

/*
    get_iwlinks.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Iwlinks` module: Get the interwiki links from a given page.

    MIT License
*/

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

var params = {
    action: "query",
    format: "json",
    prop: "iwlinks",
    titles: "Albert Einstein"
};

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].iwlinks);
        }
    })
    .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});

MediaWiki JS

/*
	get_iwlinks.js

	MediaWiki API Demos
	Demo of `Iwlinks` module: Get the interwiki links from a given page.

	MIT License
*/

var params = {
		action: 'query',
		format: 'json',
		prop: 'iwlinks',
		titles: 'Albert Einstein'
	},
	api = new mw.Api();

api.get( params ).done( function ( data ) {
	var pages = data.query.pages,
		p;
	for ( p in pages ) {
		console.log( pages[ p ].iwlinks );
	}
} );

Possible errors

Code Info
invalidparammix The title parameter may only be used with prefix.

Parameter history

  • v1.24:
    • Introduced iwprop, url
    • Deprecated iwurl
  • v1.19: Introduced iwdir
  • v1.18: Introduced iwprefix, iwtitle

See also

  • API:Alllinks - Lists links to a namespace.
  • API:Links - Gets links embedded on a page.
  • API:Backlinks - Lists pages which link to a certain page.
  • API:Linkshere - Finds all pages that link to a given page
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