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The MediaWiki REST API provides access to wiki content and functionality through a RESTful, HTTP interface. It supports operations like searching, getting and transforming wiki pages, and accessing page history.

The MediaWiki REST API offers the following key features:

• Build apps and scripts that access content from Wikipedia, or any other Wikimedia project.
• Get data in JSON or HTML format.
• Define extension-specific API endpoints within MediaWiki extensions.

Compared to the MediaWiki Action API , the REST API offers:

• A smaller, more streamlined set of operations and resources.
• Better performance, and cached responses to reduce system load on Wikimedia projects.
• Simple, consistent URL structure for endpoints.

To learn more about how the MediaWiki REST API compares to other available APIs, see API .

• Maintained by MediaWiki Interfaces Team.
• Live chat (IRC): #mediawiki-core ^connect
• Issue tracker: Phabricator MediaWiki-REST-API (Report an issue)

These docs are written manually based on the MediaWiki Core source code. Corrections and additions are welcome! To share a tutorial or app that uses the MediaWiki REST API, add a comment on the Talk page.

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For information about other APIs available for Wikimedia wikis, see Wikimedia APIs . See recent changes to all Wikimedia APIs at Wikimedia APIs/Changelog .