On this day
| GET | /feed/v1/wikipedia/{language}/onthisday/{type}/{MM}/{DD}
|
|---|
Returns events that occurred on a given date in history, including notable historical events, international holidays, and births and deaths of notable people.
Examples
curl
# Get information about this day in history from English Wikipedia
https://api.wikimedia.org/feed/v1/wikipedia/en/onthisday/all/11/21
Python
# Python 3
# Get information about this day in history from English Wikipedia
import datetime
import requests
today = datetime.datetime.now()
date = today.strftime('%m/%d')
url = 'https://api.wikimedia.org/feed/v1/wikipedia/en/onthisday/all/' + date
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 this day in history from English Wikipedia
$url = 'https://api.wikimedia.org/feed/v1/wikipedia/en/onthisday/all/' . date( 'm/d' );
$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( $output );
?>
JavaScript
// Get information about this day in history from English Wikipedia
let today = new Date();
let month = String(today.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2,'0');
let day = String(today.getDate()).padStart(2,'0');
let url = `https://api.wikimedia.org/feed/v1/wikipedia/en/onthisday/all/${month}/${day}`;
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
language
required path |
Language code. For example: ar (Arabic), en (English), es (Spanish). List supported languages.
|
type
required path |
Type of event:
|
MM
required path |
Zero-padded month, 01 through 12
|
DD
required path |
Zero-padded day of the month, 01 through 31
|
Responses
| 200 | Success
Example
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"text": "Silento, American rapper, singer and songwriter",
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"extract": "January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 343 days remain until the end of the year.",
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"extract": "Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, yielding more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a \"major voice in American Letters.\" Le Guin herself said she would prefer to be known as an \"American novelist\".",
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"page": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasius_of_Persia",
"revisions": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Anastasius_of_Persia",
"edit": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasius_of_Persia?action=edit",
"talk": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Anastasius_of_Persia"
}
},
"extract": "Saint Anastasius of Persia, was originally a Zoroastrian soldier in the Sasanian army. He later became a convert to Christianity and was martyred in 628.",
"extract_html": "<p><b>Saint Anastasius of Persia</b>, was originally a Zoroastrian soldier in the Sasanian army. He later became a convert to Christianity and was martyred in 628.</p>",
"normalizedtitle": "Anastasius of Persia"
}
]
}
]
}
|
|---|---|
| 400 | Error: Invalid parameter
Example
{
"type": "https://mediawiki.org/wiki/HyperSwitch/errors/bad_request",
"title": "Invalid parameters",
"method": "get",
"detail": "data.params.type should be equal to one of the allowed values: [all, selected, births, deaths, events, holidays]",
"uri": "{request URL}"
}
|
| 404 | Error: No data found for the requested date
Example
{
"type": "server_error#empty_response",
"title": "HyperSwitch error: No content returned by backend.",
"method": "get"
}
|
| 501 | Error: Unsupported language
Example
{
"type": "https://mediawiki.org/wiki/HyperSwitch/errors/not_found#route",
"title": "Not found.",
"method": "get",
"uri": "{request URL}"
}
|
Response schema
selected
array |
Curated set of events that occurred on the given date
Properties
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
births
array |
Notable people born on the given date
Properties
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
deaths
array |
Notable people who died on the given date
Properties
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
events
array |
Events that occurred on the given date that are not included in another type
Properties
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
holidays
array |
Fixed holidays celebrated on the given date
Properties
|