MediaWiki API help

Title of page the text belongs to. If omitted, contentmodel must be specified, and API will be used as the title.

Text to parse. Use title or contentmodel to control the content model.

Revision ID, for {{REVISIONID}} and similar variables.

Summary to parse.

Parse the content of this page. Cannot be used together with text and title.

Parse the content of this page. Overrides page.

If page or pageid is set to a redirect, resolve it.

Parse the content of this revision. Overrides page and pageid.

Which pieces of information to get:

text

Gives the parsed text of the wikitext.

langlinks

Gives the language links in the parsed wikitext.

categories

Gives the categories in the parsed wikitext.

categorieshtml

Gives the HTML version of the categories.

links

Gives the internal links in the parsed wikitext.

templates

Gives the templates in the parsed wikitext.

images

Gives the images in the parsed wikitext.

externallinks

Gives the external links in the parsed wikitext.

sections

Gives the sections in the parsed wikitext.

revid

Adds the revision ID of the parsed page.

displaytitle

Adds the title of the parsed wikitext.

headhtml

Gives parsed doctype, opening <html>, <head> element and opening <body> of the page.

modules

Gives the ResourceLoader modules used on the page. To load, use mw.loader.using(). Either jsconfigvars or encodedjsconfigvars must be requested jointly with modules.

jsconfigvars

Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page. To apply, use mw.config.set().

encodedjsconfigvars

Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page as a JSON string.

indicators

Gives the HTML of page status indicators used on the page.

iwlinks

Gives interwiki links in the parsed wikitext.

wikitext

Gives the original wikitext that was parsed.

properties

Gives various properties defined in the parsed wikitext.

limitreportdata

Gives the limit report in a structured way. Gives no data, when disablelimitreport is set.

limitreporthtml

Gives the HTML version of the limit report. Gives no data, when disablelimitreport is set.

parsetree

The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model wikitext)

parsewarnings

Gives the warnings that occurred while parsing content.

headitems

Deprecated. Gives items to put in the <head> of the page.

CSS class to use to wrap the parser output.

Do a pre-save transform on the input before parsing it. Only valid when used with text.

Do a pre-save transform (PST) on the input, but don't parse it. Returns the same wikitext, after a PST has been applied. Only valid when used with text.

Includes language links supplied by extensions (for use with prop=langlinks).

Only parse the content of this section number.

When new, parse text and sectiontitle as if adding a new section to the page.

new is allowed only when specifying text.

New section title when section is new.

Unlike page editing, this does not fall back to summary when omitted or empty.

Use disablelimitreport instead.

Omit the limit report ("NewPP limit report") from the parser output.

Omit edit section links from the parser output.

Do not run HTML cleanup (e.g. tidy) on the parser output.

Do not deduplicate inline stylesheets in the parser output.

Generate XML parse tree (requires content model wikitext; replaced by prop=parsetree).

Parse in preview mode.

Parse in section preview mode (enables preview mode too).

Omit table of contents in output.

Apply the selected skin to the parser output. May affect the following properties: langlinks, headitems, modules, jsconfigvars, indicators.

Content serialization format used for the input text. Only valid when used with text.

Content model of the input text. If omitted, title must be specified, and default will be the model of the specified title. Only valid when used with text.