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This page helps you get started using the MediaWiki REST API to perform common types of operations.

Your use of the MediaWiki REST API must follow the access and usage policies.

# Search English Wikipedia for an article about Earth $ curl "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/search/page?q=earth&limit=1"

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REST API endpoints return data in JSON or HTML format. See the API reference for the content type supported by each endpoint.

API endpoints share a consistent URL structure that includes the wiki's base URL, the wiki's script path, and the API version:

# URL structure>
[project url]/[script path]/rest.php/v[version number]/

# Example URL: Get the history of the Main Page of English Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/Main_Page/history

See Wikimedia APIs/Conditional requests.

For instructions on how to use cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests in your JavaScript code to communicate between wikis on different domains, see Special:MyLanguage/Manual:CORS.

• Set up authentication for your app
• See more query examples in the API reference