MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
list=usercontribs (uc)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Get all edits by a user.
Parameters:
- uclimit
The maximum number of contributions to return.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- ucstart
The start timestamp to return from.
- Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
- ucend
The end timestamp to return to.
- Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
- uccontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- ucuser
The users to retrieve contributions for. Cannot be used with ucuserids or ucuserprefix.
- Type: list of user names
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- ucuserids
The user IDs to retrieve contributions for. Cannot be used with ucuser or ucuserprefix.
- Type: list of integers
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- ucuserprefix
Retrieve contributions for all users whose names begin with this value. Cannot be used with ucuser or ucuserids.
- ucdir
In which direction to enumerate:
- newer
- List oldest first. Note: ucstart has to be before ucend.
- older
- List newest first (default). Note: ucstart has to be later than ucend.
- One of the following values: newer, older
- Default: older
- ucnamespace
Only list contributions in these namespaces.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 828, 829, 2300, 2301, 2302, 2303
- To specify all values, use *.
- ucprop
Include additional pieces of information:
- ids
- Adds the page ID and revision ID.
- title
- Adds the title and namespace ID of the page.
- timestamp
- Adds the timestamp of the edit.
- comment
- Adds the comment of the edit.
- parsedcomment
- Adds the parsed comment of the edit.
- size
- Adds the new size of the edit.
- sizediff
- Adds the size delta of the edit against its parent.
- flags
- Adds flags of the edit.
- patrolled
- Tags patrolled edits.
- tags
- Lists tags for the edit.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): ids, title, timestamp, comment, parsedcomment, size, sizediff, flags, patrolled, tags
- Default: ids|title|timestamp|comment|size|flags
- ucshow
Show only items that meet these criteria, e.g. non minor edits only: ucshow=!minor.
If ucshow=patrolled or ucshow=!patrolled is set, revisions older than $wgRCMaxAge (7776000 seconds) won't be shown.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): minor, !minor, patrolled, !patrolled, autopatrolled, !autopatrolled, top, !top, new, !new
- uctag
Only list revisions tagged with this tag.
- uctoponly
- Deprecated.
Only list changes which are the latest revision.
- Type: boolean (details)
Examples:
- Show contributions of user Example.
- api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuser=Example [open in sandbox]
- Show contributions from all IP addresses with prefix 192.0.2..
- api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuserprefix=192.0.2. [open in sandbox]
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