MediaWiki Action API
Wikimedia Foundation
Up· checked 14 Nov 2026, 01:55 UTCUser-AgentKnowledge & reference
Full-text search, geosearch and Commons image metadata.
Details
- Access
- User-AgentOpen, but asks clients to identify themselves with a User-Agent header.
- Coverage
- global
- Updates
- realtime
- Formats
- JSON
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- API base
https://en.wikipedia.org/w- Tags
- wikipedia, search, geosearch, commons
- Added
- 14 Nov 2026
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