MediaWiki API help
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prop=info (in)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Get basic page information.
Specific parameters:
Other general parameters are available.
- inprop
Which additional properties to get:
- protection
- List the protection level of each page.
- talkid
- The page ID of the talk page for each non-talk page.
- watched
- List the watched status of each page.
- watchers
- The number of watchers, if allowed.
- visitingwatchers
- The number of watchers of each page who have visited recent edits to that page, if allowed.
- notificationtimestamp
- The watchlist notification timestamp of each page.
- subjectid
- The page ID of the parent page for each talk page.
- associatedpage
- The prefixed title of the associated subject or talk page.
- url
- Gives a full URL, an edit URL, and the canonical URL for each page.
- readable
- Deprecated. Whether the user can read this page. Use intestactions=read instead.
- preload
- Gives the text returned by EditFormPreloadText.
- displaytitle
- Gives the manner in which the page title is actually displayed.
- varianttitles
- Gives the display title in all variants of the site content language.
- linkclasses
- Gives the additional CSS classes (e.g. link colors) used for links to this page if they were to appear on the page named by inlinkcontext.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): associatedpage, displaytitle, linkclasses, notificationtimestamp, preload, protection, subjectid, talkid, url, varianttitles, visitingwatchers, watched, watchers, readable
- inlinkcontext
The context title to use when determining extra CSS classes (e.g. link colors) when inprop contains linkclasses.
- Type: page title
- Accepts non-existent pages.
- Default: Gallowpedia
- intestactions
Test whether the current user can perform certain actions on the page.
- Separate values with | or alternative.
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
- intestactionsdetail
Detail level for intestactions. Use the main module's errorformat and errorlang parameters to control the format of the messages returned.
- boolean
- Return a boolean value for each action.
- full
- Return messages describing why the action is disallowed, or an empty array if it is allowed.
- quick
- Like full but skipping expensive checks.
- One of the following values: boolean, full, quick
- Default: boolean
- incontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.
Examples:
- Get information about the page Gallowpedia.
- api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Gallowpedia [open in sandbox]
- Get general and protection information about the page Gallowpedia.
- api.php?action=query&prop=info&inprop=protection&titles=Gallowpedia [open in sandbox]