This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation.
Client libraries contain code that developers can use to help with common and basic tasks, so that they don't have to write the code from scratch when their projects interact with an API.
This page contains a set of lists, by language, of several recommended client libraries that can be used with the MediaWiki Action API.
The recommendations are based on evaluations using API:Client_code/Gold_standard .
Last activity refers to the last commit in the repository.
Dates and version numbers were updated on 2019-06-19.
Awk
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BotWikiAwk
Framework and libraries for creating bots. Includes example bots.
27 Adar 2019
Wikiget
Awk CLI program to interface with MediaWiki API for read/write including OAuth.
8 Heziran 2019
Bash
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bash-mediawiki
An example with Curl that allows easy editing/uploading of a wiki through the MediaWiki API.
17 Tebaxe 2021
C++
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libmediawiki
A library that allows easy editing of a wiki through the MediaWiki API.
9 Keşkelun 2017
Common Lisp
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cl-mediawiki
A Common Lisp wrapper for the MediaWiki API.
10 Tışrino Peyên 2016
Elixir
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mediawiki_client_ex
Adapter for the Action API, EventStreams, and ORES. (Documentation )
0.4.1
20 Kanun 2022
21 Kanun 2022
Go
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go-mediawiki
Go wrapper for the MediaWiki API.
v0.1
4 Tışrino Peyên 2013
8 Sıbate 2017
go-mwclient
Wrapper for the MediaWiki API (supports maxlag, query continuations, OAuth).
v1.2.0
3 Heziran 2020
3 Heziran 2020
Haskell
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haskell mediawiki
A complete Haskell binding to the MediaWiki API letting you programmatically access (read and write) MediaWiki content.
0.2.6
20 Tışrino Peyên 2013
20 Tışrino Peyên 2013
Java
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JavaWikiBotFramework
A library to retrieve data from and maintain MediaWiki-based wikis such as Wikipedia.
4.0.0
13 Keşkelun 2016
15 Sıbate 2019
jwiki
A library for effortlessly interacting with Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
1.8.0
14 Nisane 2020
6 Gulane 2020
Bliki Engine
Can convert wikicode to HTML, DocBook or PDF. Has a helper library for API calls.
27 Nisane 2019
More Java libraries available at API:Client_code/All#Java .
JavaScript
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mwn (Node.js)
Mwn is a modern and feature-rich API client with support for both JavaScript and TypeScript. Has classes for conveniently working with page titles and parsing wikitext. Supports both OAuth and BotPasswords.
v2.0.2
30 Keşkelun 2023
6 Nisane 2024
mwbot (Node.js)
MWBot uses the Promise pattern and other ES6 methodologies, optimised for creating bots that make edits. Works with any MediaWiki site.
v2.0.0
30 Tışrino Verên 2017
1 Sıbate 2021
nodemw (Node.js)
A generic MediaWiki API client for Node.js.
v0.16.0
16 Keşkelun 2018
29 Tışrino Verên 2021
wikiapi (Node.js)
A simple way to access MediaWiki API via JavaScript with simple wikitext parser.
v1.16.0
1 Tışrino Verên 2020
22 Tışrino Verên 2021
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.
In-wiki JavaScript clients:
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mwapilib2
A layer overtop of the requests. Make JS gadgets easier.
25 Keşkelun 2016
JsMwApi
A convenience wrapper around raw requests, with some helpers for editing and parsing.
11 Heziran 2014
More JavaScript libraries available at API:Client_code/All#JavaScript .
Lua
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dtMediaWiki
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 Keşkelun 2018
MATLAB
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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 Sıbate 2019
19 Sıbate 2019
.NET
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WikiFunctions
Library with classes for editing and getting lists of pages via the API, used by AutoWikiBrowser .
6.2.1.0
8 Heziran 2021
5 Tışrino Verên 2023
LinqToWiki
Strongly typed library for accessing most of MediaWiki API, with support for autocompletion.
1.5.0
7 Gulane 2015
7 Gulane 2015
WikiClientLibrary
A .NET Standard & asynchronous MediaWiki API client library for wiki sites. The library also supports Flow/Wikibase/Wikia-specific API.
v0.7.5
31 Çele 2021
5 Tışrino Peyên 2022
More .NET libraries available at API:Client code/All#.NET .
OCaml
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ocaml-mediawiki
A high-level binding for the MediaWiki API written in OCaml.
29 Tebaxe 2012
Perl
PHP
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mediawiki-api-base
Library for basic MediaWiki api use.
2.4.0
2 Tışrino Peyên 2017
9 Temuze 2019
mediawiki-api
A simple library for interacting with the MediaWiki API.
0.7.2
20 Tışrino Peyên 2017
6 Nisane 2019
wikibase-api
Library for querying Wikidata .
0.7
4 Temuze 2016
17 Tebaxe 2018
More PHP libraries available at API:Client code/All#PHP .
Python
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Pywikibot (docs )
Yes
A collection of Python scripts and a powerful library for bot writing. (PyPI ) (Git repository ) (#pywikibot connect ) (Evaluation ).
9.5.0
30 Tışrino Verên 2024
Tışrino Verên 2024
pwiki (docs )
Yes
A Python library for developing bots/tools, focused on ease of use and simplicity.
1.1.1
15 Tışrino Verên 2021
28 Gulane 2022
mwclient (docs )
No
Python library that makes most of the API functions accessible. (PyPI ) (Evaluation ).
0.10.1
28 Gulane 2020
26 Keşkelun 2021
wiki-scripts (docs )
No
Framework for writing bots, maintenance scripts or performing data analysis.
1.2
31 Kanun 2017
13 Heziran 2019
Simple Python wrappers for no-abstraction interfaces to the MediaWiki API and basic session handling:
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pywikiapi
No
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 Nisane 2019
13 Nisane 2019
Wikipedia (docs )
No
A Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia.
v1.1
24 Kanun 2013
11 Tışrino Peyên 2016
wikitools
No
Provides several layers of abstraction around the API. Doesn't support Python 3.
0.41
7 Heziran 2015
28 Tebaxe 2016
More Python libraries available at API:Client code/All#Python .
R
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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 Sıbate 2017
15 Sıbate 2017
Ruby
More Ruby libraries available at API:Client code/All#Ruby .
Rust
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Wikibase RS
Rust library to talk to the Wikibase API and serialize data into Rust data structures.
0.37
19 Heziran 2019
19 Heziran 2019
mediawiki_rust
A MediaWiki client library in Rust.
16 Tışrino Peyên 2020
mwbot-rs
A framework for writing bots on MediaWiki
0.4.3
15 Tışrino Verên 2022
5 Tışrino Peyên 2022
wiki
Library for interacting with MediaWiki APIs
0.0.3
10 Tebaxe 2022
5 Tışrino Peyên 2022
More Rust libraries available at API:Client code/All#Rust .
Scala
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scalawiki
MediaWiki client in Scala.
0.6.3
17 Keşkelun 2020
28 Keşkelun 2019
dbpedia extraction framework
Data extraction framework for DBpedia with support Wiki source retrieved via MediaWiki API.
DBpedia_2015-10
25 Temuze 2016
13 Nisane 2019
scmw
Simple MediaWiki API wrapper for needs of Commonist image upload tool.
v-0.140.0
22 Kanun 2017
22 Kanun 2017
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