MediaWiki Action API (Wikipedia)

The MediaWiki Action API used by Wikipedia and other wikis to query and retrieve page content and metadata.

Category

APIs

Website

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

Docs

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs

Status

active

Pricing

free

Maintainer

Wikimedia Foundation

Added

2026-10-02

Updated

2026-10-02

Last verified

2026-10-02

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• knowledge-base
• wikipedia
• encyclopedia

Agent access

Auth

none

Notes

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Agent&format=json (send a descriptive User-Agent).

Related

• Wikidata Query Service: SPARQL endpoint for querying Wikidata's structured knowledge graph.

Sources

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Agent&format=json

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)