API:Siteinfo - MediaWiki (original) (raw)

	This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation.

GET Request to get overall site information.

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

• This module requires read rights.
• Source: MediaWiki
• License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Return general information about the site.

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

Specific parameters:

siprop

Which information to get:

general

Overall system information.

namespaces

List of registered namespaces and their canonical names.

namespacealiases

List of registered namespace aliases.

specialpagealiases

List of special page aliases.

magicwords

List of magic words and their aliases.

interwikimap

Returns interwiki map (optionally filtered, optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode).

dbrepllag

Returns database server with the highest replication lag.

statistics

Returns site statistics.

usergroups

Returns user groups and the associated permissions.

autocreatetempuser

Returns configuration for the automatic creation of temporary user accounts (also known as IP masking).

clientlibraries

Returns client-side libraries installed on the wiki

libraries

Returns libraries installed on the wiki.

extensions

Returns extensions installed on the wiki.

fileextensions

Returns list of file extensions (file types) allowed to be uploaded.

rightsinfo

Returns wiki rights (license) information if available.

restrictions

Returns information on available restriction (protection) types.

languages

Returns a list of languages MediaWiki supports (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode).

languagevariants

Returns a list of language codes for which LanguageConverter is enabled, and the variants supported for each.

skins

Returns a list of all enabled skins (optionally localised by using siinlanguagecode, otherwise in the content language).

extensiontags

Returns a list of parser extension tags.

functionhooks

Returns a list of parser function hooks.

showhooks

Returns a list of all subscribed hooks (contents of $wgHooks).

variables

Returns a list of variable IDs.

protocols

Returns a list of protocols that are allowed in external links.

defaultoptions

Returns the default values for user preferences.

uploaddialog

Returns the upload dialog configuration.

autopromote

Returns the automatic promotion configuration.

autopromoteonce

Returns the automatic promotion configuration that are only done once.

Values (separate with | or alternative): autocreatetempuser, autopromote, autopromoteonce, clientlibraries, dbrepllag, defaultoptions, extensions, extensiontags, fileextensions, functionhooks, general, interwikimap, languages, languagevariants, libraries, magicwords, namespacealiases, namespaces, protocols, restrictions, rightsinfo, showhooks, skins, specialpagealiases, statistics, uploaddialog, usergroups, variables

Default: general

sifilteriw

Return only local or only nonlocal entries of the interwiki map.

One of the following values: !local, local

sishowalldb

List all database servers, not just the one lagging the most.

Type: boolean (details)

sinumberingroup

Lists the number of users in user groups.

Type: boolean (details)

siinlanguagecode

Language code for localised language names (best effort) and skin names.

Get general site information.

{ "batchcomplete": true, "query": { "general": { "mainpage": "Main Page", "base": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page", "sitename": "Wikipedia", ... } } }

#!/usr/bin/python3

""" general_site_info.py

MediaWiki API Demos
Demo of `Siteinfo` module: Obtain general site info.

MIT License

"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

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

PARAMS = { "action": "query", "meta": "siteinfo", "formatversion": "2", "format": "json" }

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

print(DATA)