MartinPoulter

The Wikidata example queries that were here are now at wikidata:User:MartinPoulter/queries.

MediaWiki API examples

API documentation

Preview (XML extract and thumbnail) of a Wikipedia article

api.php?action=query&format=xml&formatversion=2&prop=extracts%7Cinfo%7Cpageprops%7Cpageimages&exintro=true&piprop=thumbnail&pithumbsize=281&exchars=1000&titles=Thomas%20Beach [try in ApiSandbox]

External links from an English Wikipedia page

api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=extlinks&titles=Ashmolean_Museum&ellimit=500 [try in ApiSandbox]

External links from a Commons file

api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=extlinks&titles=File%3AWilliam_Holman_Hunt_-_A_Converted_British_Family.jpg&ellimit=500 [try in ApiSandbox]

List files in a Commons category (but not subcategories)

api.php?action=query&format=json&list=categorymembers&cmnamespace=6&cmtitle=Category%3APaintings_in_the_Ashmolean_Museum&cmlimit=500 [try in ApiSandbox]

List subcategories of a Commons category

api.php?action=query&format=json&list=categorymembers&cmtype=subcat&cmtitle=Category%3ACollections_of_the_Ashmolean_Museum&cmlimit=500 [try in ApiSandbox]

Incoming links to a Wikipedia article, excluding redirects, from other articles

NB: Use the direct links for this query and the next: there is a problem with the API Sandbox (which has been reported)

api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=linkshere&titles=Bodleian_Library&lhshow=!redirect&lhnamespace=0&lhlimit=500 [try in ApiSandbox]

Incoming links to a Wikipedia article, excluding redirects, from pages in Wikipedia: namespace

api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=linkshere&titles=Ashmolean_Museum&lhnamespace=4&lhshow=!redirect&lhlimit=500 [try in ApiSandbox]

Incoming links to a Commons institution template, excluding redirects

api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=linkshere&lhlimit=500&lhshow=!redirect&titles=Institution:Ashmolean_Museum [try in ApiSandbox]

Uses of an image in articles on English Wikipedia

api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=fileusage&fushow=!redirect&funamespace=0&titles=File:Conica_of_Apollonius_of_Perga_fol._162b_and_164a.jpg [try in ApiSandbox]

Templates used in a Wikipedia article

api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=templates&tlnamespace=10&titles=Albert%20Einstein [try in ApiSandbox]

All files in a Commons category (including subcats)

Returns max of 500 results per batch

api.php?action=query&format=json&srnamespace=6&deepcat=500&list=search&srsearch=deepcat:Khalili_Collections&srlimit=max [try in ApiSandbox]

All files in a Commons category (search as generator)

api.php?action=query&format=json&gsrnamespace=6&deepcat=500&generator=search&gsrsearch=deepcat:Khalili_Collections&gsrlimit=max [try in ApiSandbox]

All contributors to a given file

api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=contributors&titles=File:Khalili_Collection_Japanese_Meiji_Art_M159.jpg&utf8=1 [try in ApiSandbox]

All categories that a Commons file is in (hidden categories marked as such)

api.php?action=query&format=json&titles=File:Khalili_Collection_Japanese_Meiji_Art_M159.jpg&prop=categories&cllimit=max&utf8=1&clprop=hidden [try in ApiSandbox]