MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
prop=extracts (ex)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: TextExtracts
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Returns plain-text or limited HTML extracts of the given pages.
Parameters:
- exchars
How many characters to return. Actual text returned might be slightly longer.
- The value must be between 1 and 1,200.
- Type: integer
- exsentences
How many sentences to return.
- The value must be between 1 and 10.
- Type: integer
- exlimit
How many extracts to return. (Multiple extracts can only be returned if exintro is set to true.)
- No more than 20 (20 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 20
- exintro
Return only content before the first section.
- Type: boolean (details)
- explaintext
Return extracts as plain text instead of limited HTML.
- Type: boolean (details)
- exsectionformat
How to format sections in plaintext mode:
- plain
- No formatting.
- wiki
- Wikitext-style formatting (== like this ==).
- raw
- This module's internal representation (section titles prefixed with <ASCII 1><ASCII 2><section level><ASCII 2><ASCII 1>).
- One of the following values: plain, wiki, raw
- Default: wiki
- excontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- Type: integer
Example:
- Get a 175-character extract
- api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exchars=175&titles=Therion [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
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HTTP HEADERS:
CONTENT-TYPE:
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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 {
"IPAddress": "3.133.123.140",
"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 "c1ielcomvossbsj3pa5tb7htu58hn4h5" is unsaved, marking dirty in constructor[session] SessionBackend "c1ielcomvossbsj3pa5tb7htu58hn4h5" save: dataDirty=1 metaDirty=1 forcePersist=0[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw__session", "", "1715249207", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_UserID", "", "1715249207", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_Token", "", "1715249207", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "forceHTTPS", "", "1715249207", "/", "", "", "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