API:Querypage

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.18

GET request to get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.

API documentation

list=querypage (qp) (main | query | querypage) This module requires read rights. This module can be used as a generator. Source: MediaWiki License: GPL-2.0-or-later Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Querypage Parameters: qppage The name of the special page. Note, this is case-sensitive. This parameter is required. One of the following values: Ancientpages, BrokenRedirects, Deadendpages, DisambiguationPageLinks, DisambiguationPages, DoubleRedirects, Fewestrevisions, GadgetUsage, GloballyWantedFiles, ListDuplicatedFiles, Listredirects, Lonelypages, Longpages, MediaStatistics, MostGloballyLinkedFiles, Mostcategories, Mostimages, Mostinterwikis, Mostlinked, Mostlinkedcategories, Mostlinkedtemplates, Mostrevisions, OrphanedTimedText, Shortpages, Uncategorizedcategories, Uncategorizedimages, Uncategorizedpages, Uncategorizedtemplates, UnconnectedPages, Unusedcategories, Unusedimages, Unusedtemplates, Unwatchedpages, Wantedcategories, Wantedfiles, Wantedpages, Wantedtemplates, Withoutinterwiki qpoffset When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org. Type: integer Default: 0 qplimit Number of results to return. Type: integer or max The value must be between 1 and 500. Default: 10 Example: Return results from Special:Ancientpages. api.php?action=query&list=querypage&qppage=Ancientpages [open in sandbox]

Example

GET request

In the below query, we call the API to get a list of the first ten pages which are uncategorized

api.php?action=query&format=json&list=querypage&qppage=Uncategorizedpages&qplimit=10 [try in ApiSandbox]

Response

{
  "batchcomplete": "", 
  "continue": {
    "continue": "-||", 
    "qpoffset": 10
  }, 
  "query": {
    "querypage": {
      "cached": "", 
      "cachedtimestamp": "2019-02-22T11:46:48Z", 
      "maxresults": 5000, 
      "name": "Uncategorizedpages", 
      "results": [
        {
          "ns": 0, 
          "title": "Abelardo Delgado", 
          "value": "0"
        }, 
        {
          "ns": 0, 
          "title": "Agriculture in Tonga", 
          "value": "0"
        }, 
        {
          "ns": 0, 
          "title": "Andriandramaka", 
          "value": "0"
        }
        ...
      ]
    }
  }
}

Sample code

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    get_querypage_list.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Querypage` module: List first 10 pages which are uncategorized

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

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

PARAMS = {
    "qplimit": "10",
    "action": "query",
    "qppage": "Uncategorizedpages",
    "list": "querypage",
    "format": "json"
}

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

QUERYPAGE = DATA['query']['querypage']['results']

for p in QUERYPAGE:
    print(str(p['title']))

PHP

<?php
/*
    get_querypage_list.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Querypage` module: List first 10 pages which are uncategorized

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "list" => "querypage",
    "qppage" => "Uncategorizedpages",
    "qplimit" => "10",
    "format" => "json"
];

$url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params );

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$result = json_decode( $output, true );

foreach( $result["query"]["querypage"]["results"] as $page ){
    echo( $page["title"] . "\n" );
}

JavaScript

/*
    get_querypage_list.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Querypage` module: List first 10 pages which are uncategorized

    MIT License
*/

var url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; 

var params = {
    action: "query",
    list: "querypage",
    qppage: "Uncategorizedpages",
    qplimit: "10",
    format: "json"
};

url = url + "?origin=*";
Object.keys(params).forEach(function(key){url += "&" + key + "=" + params[key];});

fetch(url)
    .then(function(response){return response.json();})
    .then(function(response) {
        var querypage = response.query.querypage.results;
        for (var p in querypage) {
            console.log(querypage[p].title);
        }
    })
    .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});

MediaWiki JS

/*
	get_querypage_list.js

	MediaWiki API Demos
	Demo of `Querypage` module: List first 10 pages which are uncategorized

	MIT License
*/

var params = {
		action: 'query',
		list: 'querypage',
		qppage: 'Uncategorizedpages',
		qplimit: '10',
		format: 'json'
	},
	api = new mw.Api();

api.get( params ).done( function ( data ) {
	var querypage = data.query.querypage.results,
		p;
	for ( p in querypage ) {
		console.log( querypage[ p ].title );
	}
} );

Special page values

(MediaWiki 1.32.0)

Ancientpages	Listredirects	Mostlinked	Unusedtemplates
BrokenRedirects	Lonelypages	Mostrevisions	Unwatchedpages
Deadendpages	Longpages	Shortpages	Wantedcategories
DisambiguationPageLinks	MediaStatistics	Uncategorizedcategories	Wantedfiles
DisambiguationPages	Mostcategories	Uncategorizedpages	Wantedpages
DoubleRedirects	MostGloballyLinkedFiles	Uncategorizedimages	Wantedtemplates
EntityUsage	Mostimages	Uncategorizedtemplates	Withoutinterwiki
Fewestrevisions	Mostinterwikis	UnconnectedPages
GloballyWantedFiles	Mostlinkedcategories	Unusedcategories
ListDuplicatedFiles	Mostlinkedtemplates	Unusedimages

Possible errors

Code	Info
unknown_qppage	Unrecognized value for parameter qppage: value.
noqppage	The qppage parameter must be set.

Additional notes

• This module can be used as a generator .
• Namespace filtering is unavailable on these pages. The possible way is to manually filter "ns" from collected results.

See also

• API:Allpages - Lists all pages fitting certain criteria, within a given Namespace .
• API:Categorymembers - Lists all pages within a category
• API:Pageswithprop - List all pages using a given page property.