API documentation

Special:ApiHelp/query+prefixsearch

Example

GET request

Response

{
    "batchcomplete": "",
    "continue": {
        "psoffset": 10,
        "continue": "-||"
    },
    "query": {
        "prefixsearch": [
            {
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Star Wars",
                "pageid": 26678
            },
            {
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Star Wars: The Last Jedi",
                "pageid": 43910621
            },
            {
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens",
                "pageid": 14723194
            },
            {
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Star Wars (film)",
                "pageid": 52549
            }
            ...
        ]
    }
}

Sample code

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    prefixsearch.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Prefixsearch` module: Perform a prefix search for page titles

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

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

PARAMS = {
    "action": "query",
    "format": "json",
    "list": "prefixsearch",
    "pssearch": "Star Wars"
}

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

PAGES = DATA['query']['prefixsearch']

for page in PAGES:
    print(page["title"])

PHP

<?php
/*
    prefixsearch.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Prefixsearch` module: Perform a prefix search for page titles

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "list" => "prefixsearch",
    "pssearch" => "Star Wars",
    "format" => "json"
];

$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"]["prefixsearch"] as $page ) {
    echo( $page["title"] . "\n" );
}

JavaScript

/*
    prefixsearch.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Prefixsearch` module: Perform a prefix search for page titles

    MIT License
*/

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

var params = {
    action: "query",
    list: "prefixsearch",
    pssearch: "Star Wars",
    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) {
        var pages = response.query.prefixsearch;
        for (var page in pages) {
            console.log( pages[page].title );
        }
    })
    .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});

MediaWiki JS

/*
	prefixsearch.js

	MediaWiki API Demos
	Demo of `Prefixsearch` module: Perform a prefix search for page titles

	MIT License
*/

var params = {
		action: 'query',
		list: 'prefixsearch',
		pssearch: 'Star Wars',
		format: 'json'
	},
	api = new mw.Api();

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

Possible errors

Code Info
nopssearch The pssearch parameter must be set.

See also

  • API:All search modules
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