API:Iwbacklinks - MediaWiki (original) (raw)

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GET request to get all pages that link to the given interwiki link.

	The following documentation is the output of Special:ApiHelp/query+iwbacklinks, automatically generated by the pre-release version of MediaWiki that is running on this site (MediaWiki.org).

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• Source: MediaWiki
• License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Find all pages that link to the given interwiki link.

Can be used to find all links with a prefix, or all links to a title (with a given prefix). Using neither parameter is effectively "all interwiki links".

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Iwbacklinks

Specific parameters:

iwblprefix

Prefix for the interwiki.

iwbltitle

Interwiki link to search for. Must be used with iwblblprefix.

iwblcontinue

When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.

iwbllimit

How many total pages to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

iwblprop

Which properties to get:

iwprefix

Adds the prefix of the interwiki.

iwtitle

Adds the title of the interwiki.

Values (separate with | or alternative): iwprefix, iwtitle

Default: (empty)

iwbldir

The direction in which to list.

One of the following values: ascending, descending

Default: ascending

Get pages that link to a given interwiki link.

{ "batchcomplete": "", "continue": { "iwblcontinue": "wikibooks|Main_Page|438739", "continue": "-||" }, "query": { "iwbacklinks": [ { "pageid": 18606, "ns": 0, "title": "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam" }, { "pageid": 43347, "ns": 1, "title": "Talk:Vi" }, ... ] } }

#!/usr/bin/python3

""" iwbacklinks.py

MediaWiki API Demos
Demo of `Iwbacklinks` module: Get pages that link to a given interwiki link.

MIT License

"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"

PARAMS = { "action": "query", "list": "iwbacklinks", "iwblprefix": "wikibooks", "iwbltitle": "Main_Page", "format": "json" }

R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS) DATA = R.json()

print(DATA)