MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
prop=info (in)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Get basic page information.
Parameters:
- inprop
Which additional properties to get:
- protection
- List the protection level of each page.
- talkid
- The page ID of the talk page for each non-talk page.
- watched
- List the watched status of each page.
- watchers
- The number of watchers, if allowed.
- visitingwatchers
- The number of watchers of each page who have visited recent edits to that page, if allowed.
- notificationtimestamp
- The watchlist notification timestamp of each page.
- subjectid
- The page ID of the parent page for each talk page.
- url
- Gives a full URL, an edit URL, and the canonical URL for each page.
- readable
- Deprecated. Whether the user can read this page. Use intestactions=read instead.
- preload
- Gives the text returned by EditFormPreloadText.
- displaytitle
- Gives the manner in which the page title is actually displayed.
- varianttitles
- Gives the display title in all variants of the site content language.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): protection, talkid, watched, watchers, visitingwatchers, notificationtimestamp, subjectid, url, readable, preload, displaytitle, varianttitles
- intestactions
Test whether the current user can perform certain actions on the page.
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- intestactionsdetail
Detail level for intestactions. Use the main module's errorformat and errorlang parameters to control the format of the messages returned.
- boolean
- Return a boolean value for each action.
- full
- Return messages describing why the action is disallowed, or an empty array if it is allowed.
- quick
- Like full but skipping expensive checks.
- One of the following values: boolean, full, quick
- Default: boolean
- intoken
- Deprecated.
Use action=query&meta=tokens instead.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): edit, delete, protect, move, block, unblock, email, import, watch
- incontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
Examples:
- Get information about the page Main Page.
- api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
- Get general and protection information about the page Main Page.
- api.php?action=query&prop=info&inprop=protection&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
[SQLBagOStuff] MainObjectStash using store ReplicatedBagOStuff[objectcache] MainWANObjectCache using store EmptyBagOStuffIP: 3.148.194.168Start request GET /mediawiki/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Binfo
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": "3.148.194.168",
"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 "5smreq3lfgp1s14jkiq9g6j597v3ak9p" is unsaved, marking dirty in constructor[session] SessionBackend "5smreq3lfgp1s14jkiq9g6j597v3ak9p" save: dataDirty=1 metaDirty=1 forcePersist=0[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw__session", "", "1715249641", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_UserID", "", "1715249641", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "wikidb229_mw_Token", "", "1715249641", "/", "", "", "1"[cookie] already deleted setcookie: "forceHTTPS", "", "1715249641", "/", "", "", "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