MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page
action=opensearch
(main | opensearch)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Search the wiki using the OpenSearch protocol.
Specific parameters:
Other general parameters are available.
- search
Search string.
- This parameter is required.
- namespace
Namespaces to search. Ignored if search begins with a valid namespace prefix.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 710, 711, 828, 829
- To specify all values, use *.
- Default: 0
- limit
Maximum number of results to return.
- Type: integer or max
- The value must be between 1 and 500.
- Default: 10
- profile
Search profile to use.
- strict
- Strict profile with few punctuation characters removed but diacritics and stress marks are kept.
- normal
- Few punctuation characters, some diacritics and stopwords removed.
- fuzzy
- Similar to normal with typo correction (two typos supported).
- fast-fuzzy
- Experimental fuzzy profile (may be removed at any time)
- classic
- Classic prefix, few punctuation characters and some diacritics removed.
- engine_autoselect
- Let the search engine decide on the best profile to use.
- One of the following values: classic, engine_autoselect, fast-fuzzy, fuzzy, normal, strict
- Default: engine_autoselect
- suggest
- Deprecated.
No longer used.
- Type: boolean (details)
- redirects
How to handle redirects:
- return
- Return the redirect itself.
- resolve
- Return the target page. May return fewer than limit results.
For historical reasons, the default is "return" for format=json and "resolve" for other formats.
- One of the following values: resolve, return
- format
The format of the output.
- One of the following values: json, jsonfm, xml, xmlfm
- Default: json
- warningsaserror
If warnings are raised with format=json, return an API error instead of ignoring them.
- Type: boolean (details)
Example:
- Find pages beginning with Te.
- api.php?action=opensearch&search=Te [open in sandbox]