API:Querypage

This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation.

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.18

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

API documentation edit

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

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

Specific parameters:

Other general parameters are available.

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 edit

GET request edit

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 edit

{
  "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 edit

Python edit

#!/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 edit

<?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 edit

/*
    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 edit

/*
	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 edit

(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 edit


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

Additional notes edit

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.