Get page

GET	/core/v1/{project}/{language}/page/{title}/bare

Returns the standard page object for a wiki page, including the API route to fetch the latest content in HTML, the license, and information about the latest revision.

Examples

curl

# Get information about the Earth article on English Wikipedia
$ curl https://api.wikimedia.org/core/v1/wikipedia/en/page/Earth/bare

Python

# Python 3
# Get information about the Earth article on English Wikipedia

import requests

page = 'Earth'
url = 'https://api.wikimedia.org/core/v1/wikipedia/en/page/' + page + '/bare'

headers = {
  'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN',
  'User-Agent': 'YOUR_APP_NAME (YOUR_EMAIL_OR_CONTACT_PAGE)'
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
data = response.json()
print(data)

PHP

<?php
// Get information about the Earth article on English Wikipedia

$url = 'https://api.wikimedia.org/core/v1/wikipedia/en/page/Earth/bare';

$token = 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN';
$authorization = 'Authorization: Bearer ' . $token;

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( $authorization ));
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'YOUR_APP_NAME (YOUR_EMAIL_OR_CONTACT_PAGE)' );
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

echo( $output );
?>

JavaScript

// Get information about the Earth article on English Wikipedia

let url = 'https://api.wikimedia.org/core/v1/wikipedia/en/page/Earth/bare';
let response = await fetch( url,
    {
        headers: {
            'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN',
            'Api-User-Agent': 'YOUR_APP_NAME (YOUR_EMAIL_OR_CONTACT_PAGE)'
        }
    }
);
response.json()
    .then(console.log).catch(console.error);

Parameters

project required path	Project name. For example: wikipedia (encyclopedia articles), commons (images, audio, and video), wiktionary (dictionary entries). List all projects.
language required path	Language code. For example: ar (Arabic), en (English), es (Spanish). List supported languages. Note: The language parameter is prohibited for commons and other multilingual projects.
title required path	Wiki page title

Responses

200

Success: Page found. Returns a page with the html_url property. Example { "id": 9228, "key": "Earth", "title": "Earth", "latest": { "id": 989181479, "timestamp": "2020-11-17T14:42:31Z" }, "content_model": "wikitext", "license": { "url": "//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/", "title": "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0" }, "html_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/Earth/html" }

404

Error: Title or revision not found Example { "messageTranslations": { "en": "The specified title does not exist" }, "httpCode": 404, "httpReason": "Not Found" }