This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation.
This page contains a set of lists, by language, of all known client libraries that can be used with the MediaWiki Action API.
API client libraries
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Dates and version numbers were updated on 2019-06-19.
Last evaluation for recommended libraries (
API:Client_code ) was done on 2019-06-19.
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
BotWikiAwk
Framework and libraries for creating bots. Includes example bots.
0.51
2021-05-30
2021-08-11
Wikiget
Awk CLI program to interface with MediaWiki API for read/write including OAuth.
1.19
2021-12-18
2021-12-18
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
libmediawiki .
C++ interface for MediaWiki-based web services such as Wikipedia.
5.38.0
2022-08-26
2022-08-26
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
cl-mediawiki
A Common Lisp wrapper for the Mediawiki API.
2016-11-10
2016-11-10
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
mediawiki_client Documentation
Adapter for the Action API, EventStreams, and ORES.
0.4.1
2022-12-20
2022-12-21
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
go-mediawiki
Go wrapper for the MediaWiki API.
v0.1
2013-11-04
2017-02-08
go-mwclient
Wrapper for the MediaWiki API (supports maxlag, query continuations, OAuth).
1.2.0
2020-07-03
2020-07-03
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
haskell mediawiki
A complete Haskell binding to the MediaWiki API letting you programmatically access (read and write) MediaWiki content.
0.2.6
20 Nov 2013
20 Nov 2013
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
Bliki Engine
Can convert wikicode to HTML, DocBook or PDF. Has a helper library for API calls
27 Apr 2019
dkpro-jwpl Java Wikipedia Library
Facilitates access to all information in Wikipedia.
1.1.0
26 Apr 2016
10 Oct 2018
dkpro-jwktl Java Wiktionary Library .
Enables efficient and structured access to the information encoded in the English and German Wiktionary language.
1.1.0
29 Apr 2016
15 Apr 2019
JavaWikiBotFramework
A library to retrieve data from and maintain MediaWiki-based wikis such as Wikipedia.
4.0.0
13 Sep 2016
15 Feb 2019
jwiki
A library for effortlessly interacting with Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
1.8.0
14 Apr 2020
6 May 2020
Kaspar
Framework for editing MediaWiki wikis.
0.2
18 Jul 2015
14 Jan 2016
Mediawiki-Japi
An API for the MediaWiki web API.
0.1.03
20 Mar 2019
20 Mar 2019
Wiki.java
A MediaWiki bot framework.
0.36
8 Feb 2019
19 Jun 2019
Wikidata Toolkit
A library with functions to process data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites, via XML dumps or the API. For more info, see Wikidata Toolkit .
0.10.0
12 Jun 2019
14 Jun 2019
WPCleaner
WPCleaner is a tool designed to help with various maintenance tasks on wikis run with MediaWiki software.
21 Jun 2019
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
wikidata-sdk (Node.js)
Wikidata SDK is a javascript toolkit for querying Wikidata.org and simplify its results.
v7.0.8
5 Jun 2019
2 Jun 2019
mwbot (Node.js)
MWBot uses the Promise pattern and other ES6 methodologies, optimised for creating bots that make edits. Works with any MediaWiki site.
v1.0.10
30 Oct 2017
20 Feb 2019
mwn (Node.js)
Mwn provides comprehensive high-level bindings leveraging latest JS features (such as asynchronous generators for supporting query continuation).
v2.0.1
30 Sep 2023
30 Sep 2023
wikijs (Node.js)
WikiJs provides a high-level interface for editing, querying and searching through the API. Works with any MediaWiki site.
v4.11.1
6 Jan 2019
12 Jun 2019
nodemw (Node.js)
A generic MediaWiki API client for Node.js.
v0.13.0
12 Apr 2020
19 Oct 2020
mediawiki (Node.js)
This JavaScript framework provides methods for common use cases (e.g. log in, read, edit, etc.) as well as a generic API client. Includes handling for rate throttling.
2 Jul 2014
mediawiki-js (browser)
Ultra-light, vanilla JavaScript wrapper of Mediawiki API for use in the browser (npm ).
5 Jun 2018
CeJS (Node.js, browser)
A JavaScript framework including MediaWiki functions to build bots, running on Node.js and in the browser. See Wikipedia bot examples .
2.0.0
28 Oct 2015
22 Jun 2019
mediawiki.api (browser)
Generic MediaWiki API client for client-side JavaScript. It ships with MediaWiki core as a ResourceLoader module bundle. It abstracts some high-level concepts and provides a generic client for other queries.
Maintained as part of MediaWiki.
m3api (Node.js, browser)
Minimal, modern MediaWiki API client; minimal = direct interaction with API (no CRUD abstractions), modern = promises etc.
0.5.0
4 December 2021
4 December 2021
In-wiki JavaScript clients:
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
mwapilib2
A layer overtop of the requests. Make JS gadgets easier.
25 Sep 2016
JsMwApi
A convenience wrapper around raw requests, with some helpers for editing and parsing.
11 Jun 2014
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
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mediawikiapi
Makes query (tokens, userinfo), clientlogin, upload, and logout calls. It handles HTTPS requests and cookies and can be used to upload files to Wikimedia Commons.
20 Sep 2018
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
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MatWiki
A preliminary (as of Feb 2019) MATLAB R2016b(9.1.x) client supporting just bot-logins & semantic #ask queries.
v1.0.0
19 Feb 2019
19 Feb 2019
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
AutoWikiBrowser's
WikiFunctions library has classes for editing and getting lists of pages via the API.
6.0.0.1
15 Sep 2018
16 Jun 2019
DotNetWikiBot Framework
Written in C#, based on Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5 (Tutorial ).
16 Feb 2016
MorebitsDotNet
Contains C# code for uploading files through the API.
15 Feb 2016
LinqToWiki
Strongly typed library for accessing most of MediaWiki API, with support for autocompletion.
1.5.0
7 May 2015
7 May 2015
WikiClientLibrary
A .NET Standard & asynchronous MediaWiki API client library for wiki sites. The library also supports Flow/Wikibase/Wikia-specific API.
v0.7.0-int.2
26 May 2019
31 May 2019
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
ocaml-mediawiki
A high-level binding for the MediaWiki API written in OCaml.
29 Aug 2012
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
EasyWiki
Friendly PHP client for the MediaWiki Action API.
v2
24 Jul 2022
15 Jan 2024
boz-mw
Also support image upload and read/write in Wikibase/Wikidata. Inline documentation.
1.0.0
28 Jan 2020
26 May 2022
mediawiki-api
A simple library for interacting with the MediaWiki API.
3.0.0
20 Nov 2017
3 Jun 2022
mediawiki-api-base
Library for basic MediaWiki api use.
3.0.0
2 Nov 2017
3 Jun 2022
wikibase-api
Library for querying Wikidata .
3.0.0
4 Jul 2016
3 Jun 2022
Wikimate
Gets and edits MediaWiki pages; uploads/downloads files and gets properties.
1.1.0
30 Jul 2023
24 Jun 2024
MediaWiki_Api
A simple PHP curl based API wrapper with basic functionality. Almost completely undocumented.
1.0.0
21 Jun 2018
13 Sep 2019
wikidrain
A wrapper for the WikiMedia API centralized around easily and simply querying Wikipedia articles.
N/A
N/A
15 Apr 2016
There are many PHP frameworks for the API. See this feature comparison table on Wikipedia for more details on some of the available options.
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
Pywikibot A collection of python scripts and a powerful library for bot writing. (Git repository ) (#pywikibot connect Evaluation ).
9.6.1
13 December 2024
December 2024
mwclient
Python library that makes most of the API functions accessible. Last release: v0.9.3, November 2018. (PyPI ) (Evaluation ).
0.9.3
23 Nov 2018
10 Jun 2019
pwiki
A Python library for developing bots/tools, focused on ease of use and simplicity.
1.1.1
15 Oct 2021
28 May 2022
Wikipedia-API
Easy to use Python 3 library. Provides read-only API.
0.5.4
26 Jan 2020
26 Jan 2020
ceterach
Python3 library, fully PEP8 compliant.
14 Dec 2018
wptools
Wikipedia tools (for Humans). Read-only API.
v0.4.17
17 Aug 2018
17 Aug 2018
wiki-scripts
Framework for writing bots, maintenance scripts or performing data analysis.
1.2
31 Dec 2017
13 Jun 2019
Pattern (GitHub )
Web mining module, has classes for handling MediaWiki API requests, handles continuations.
2.6
8 Jul 2013
18 Aug 2018
Simple Python wrappers for no-abstraction interfaces to the MediaWiki API and basic session handling:
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
pywikiapi
A minimalistic library that handles some of the core MediaWiki API complexities like handling continuations, login, errors, and warnings, but does not impose any additional abstraction layers.
1.3.2
13 Apr 2019
13 Apr 2019
simplemediawiki
Python 2.6+ and 3.3+ compatible. Docs . Last updated in March 2017. (PyPI ) (Evaluation )
1.2.0b2
12 Aug 2013
16 Mar 2017
python-mwapi
Simple Python Wrapper around MediaWiki API
v0.5.0
15 Sep 2015
18 May 2019
async_mediawiki
An asynchronous python libary to get mediawiki content
0.2.0
31 Oct 2018
28 Mar 2019
analytics-zero-sms
21 Oct 2015
mwstreaming
A collection of scripts and utilities to support the stream-processing of MediaWiki data.
0.55
15 Apr 2015
15 Apr 2015
Wikipedia
A Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia.
v1.1
24 Dec 2013
11 Nov 2016
wikitools
Provides several layers of abstraction around the API. Doesn't support Python 3.
0.41
7 Jun 2015
28 Aug 2016
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
WikipediR
A wrapper for the MediaWiki API, aimed particularly at the Wikimedia 'production' wikis, such as Wikipedia. Can be used to retrieve page text, information about users or the history of pages, and elements of the category tree.
1.5.0
15 Feb 2017
15 Feb 2017
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
Mediawiki Ruby API
Ruby API client library in active development by Wikimedia Foundation Release Engineering .
0.71
31 Jan 2017
5 Dec 2017
MediaWiki::Gateway
Ruby framework for the API.
v1.1.0
5 Jan 2016
5 Jan 2016
wikipedia-client
Ruby framework using the API.
v1.10.0
5 Mar 2018
5 Mar 2018
Sunflower
Provides Ruby access to MediaWiki API; can be used as a base for more sophisticated bots or as standalone by beginners.
0.5.12
14 May 2016
14 May 2016
MediaWiki::Butt
Stable but powerful Ruby framework for the API in active development. (Evaluation ).
3.0.0
19 Oct 2017
3 Jan 2019
MediaWiktory
(low-level) and Infoboxer (high-level, semantic) clients to MediaWiki, with idiomatic API, support for custom Wiki modules.
v0.1.3
8 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018
Name
Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
mediawiki-rs
Wrapper for the MediaWiki API.
30 Jun 2018
WP:RS
An extremely low-level wrapper to the MediaWiki API.
27 Jun 2017
Wikibase RS
Rust library to talk to the Wikibase API and serialize data into Rust data structures.
0.37
19 Jun 2019
19 Jun 2019
mediawiki_rust
A MediaWiki client library in Rust.
23 Jun 2019
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Description
Last release
Release Date
Last activity
scalawiki
MediaWiki client in Scala.
0.6.0
29 May 2019
23 Jun 2019
dbpedia extraction framework
Data extraction framework for DBpedia with support Wiki source retrived via MediaWiki API.
DBpedia_2015-10
25 Jul 2016
13 Apr 2019
scmw
Simple MediaWiki API wrapper for needs of Commonist image upload tool.
v-0.140.0
22 Dec 2017
22 Dec 2017
Name
Description
Last release
Release date
Last activity
mwn (Node.js)
Mwn provides comprehensive high-level bindings leveraging latest JS features (such as asynchronous generators for supporting query continuation).
v1.11.5
2023-01-15
2023-01-15
