MediaWiki API help
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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
list=blocks (bk)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
List all blocked users and IP addresses.
Parameters:
- bkstart
The timestamp to start enumerating from.
- Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
- bkend
The timestamp to stop enumerating at.
- Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
- bkdir
In which direction to enumerate:
- newer
- List oldest first. Note: bkstart has to be before bkend.
- older
- List newest first (default). Note: bkstart has to be later than bkend.
- One of the following values: newer, older
- Default: older
- bkids
List of block IDs to list (optional).
- Type: list of integers
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- bkusers
List of users to search for (optional).
- Type: list of user names
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- bkip
Get all blocks applying to this IP address or CIDR range, including range blocks. Cannot be used together with bkusers. CIDR ranges broader than IPv4/16 or IPv6/19 are not accepted.
- bklimit
The maximum number of blocks to list.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- bkprop
Which properties to get:
- id
- Adds the ID of the block.
- user
- Adds the username of the blocked user.
- userid
- Adds the user ID of the blocked user.
- by
- Adds the username of the blocking user.
- byid
- Adds the user ID of the blocking user.
- timestamp
- Adds the timestamp of when the block was given.
- expiry
- Adds the timestamp of when the block expires.
- reason
- Adds the reason given for the block.
- range
- Adds the range of IP addresses affected by the block.
- flags
- Tags the ban with (autoblock, anononly, etc.).
- restrictions
- Adds the partial block restrictions if the block is not sitewide.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): id, user, userid, by, byid, timestamp, expiry, reason, range, flags, restrictions
- Default: id|user|by|timestamp|expiry|reason|flags
- bkshow
Show only items that meet these criteria. For example, to see only indefinite blocks on IP addresses, set bkshow=ip|!temp.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): account, !account, temp, !temp, ip, !ip, range, !range
- bkcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
Examples:
- List blocks.
- api.php?action=query&list=blocks [open in sandbox]
- List blocks of users Alice and Bob.
- api.php?action=query&list=blocks&bkusers=Alice|Bob [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
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HTTP HEADERS:
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USER-AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
HOST: zero-k.info
ACCEPT-ENCODING: gzip, br, zstd, deflate
ACCEPT: */*
CONNECTION: close[localisation] LocalisationCache: using store LCStoreDB[session] SessionManager using store SqlBagOStuff[DBReplication] Cannot use ChronologyProtector with EmptyBagOStuff[DBReplication] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory::getChronologyProtector: request info {
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"UserAgent": "Mozilla\/5.0 AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot\/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"ChronologyProtection": false,
"ChronologyPositionIndex": 0,
"ChronologyClientId": false
}[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::lazyLoadReplicationPositions: executed chronology callback.[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[session] SessionBackend "84mo6c5qanuu1b0nsbvq6rjar8rcthj6" is unsaved, marking dirty in constructor[session] SessionBackend "84mo6c5qanuu1b0nsbvq6rjar8rcthj6" save: dataDirty=1 metaDirty=1 forcePersist=0[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw__session", "", "1715249059", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_UserID", "", "1715249059", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_Token", "", "1715249059", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "forceHTTPS", "", "1715249059", "/", "", "", "1"[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.[MessageCache] MessageCache using store SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] SqlBagOStuff::lock failed due to timeout for wikidb229-mw_:messages:en.[ContentHandler] Created handler for wikitext: WikitextContentHandler[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #127 (handle id #121) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[MessageCache] MessageCache::load: Loading en... local cache is empty, global cache is expired/volatile, loading from databaseParserFactory: using preprocessor: Preprocessor_HashUnstubbing $wgLang on call of $wgLang::_unstub from ParserOptions->__construct