MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
list=filearchive (fa)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Enumerate all deleted files sequentially.
Parameters:
- fafrom
The image title to start enumerating from.
- fato
The image title to stop enumerating at.
- faprefix
Search for all image titles that begin with this value.
- fadir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- fasha1
SHA1 hash of image. Overrides fasha1base36.
- fasha1base36
SHA1 hash of image in base 36 (used in MediaWiki).
- faprop
Which image information to get:
- sha1
- Adds SHA-1 hash for the image.
- timestamp
- Adds timestamp for the uploaded version.
- user
- Adds user who uploaded the image version.
- size
- Adds the size of the image in bytes and the height, width and page count (if applicable).
- dimensions
- Alias for size.
- description
- Adds description of the image version.
- parseddescription
- Parse the description of the version.
- mime
- Adds MIME of the image.
- mediatype
- Adds the media type of the image.
- metadata
- Lists Exif metadata for the version of the image.
- bitdepth
- Adds the bit depth of the version.
- archivename
- Adds the filename of the archive version for non-latest versions.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): sha1, timestamp, user, size, dimensions, description, parseddescription, mime, mediatype, metadata, bitdepth, archivename
- Default: timestamp
- falimit
How many images to return in total.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- facontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
Example:
- Show a list of all deleted files.
- api.php?action=query&list=filearchive [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
[SQLBagOStuff] MainObjectStash using store ReplicatedBagOStuff[objectcache] MainWANObjectCache using store EmptyBagOStuffIP: 3.143.116.179Start request GET /mediawiki/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bfilearchive
HTTP HEADERS:
CONTENT-TYPE:
CONTENT-LENGTH: 0
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": "3.143.116.179",
"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 "h3c0n31re8974quh2sq9g7flop0r8585" is unsaved, marking dirty in constructor[session] SessionBackend "h3c0n31re8974quh2sq9g7flop0r8585" save: dataDirty=1 metaDirty=1 forcePersist=0[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw__session", "", "1715249577", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_UserID", "", "1715249577", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_Token", "", "1715249577", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "forceHTTPS", "", "1715249577", "/", "", "", "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