api.php: MediaWiki Action API

API: wiktionary.org:wiktionary-api
Endpoint: /w/api.php
Response format: unknown
Auth: unknown
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 289ms

Description

The main MediaWiki API endpoint supporting various query actions.

Parameters (2)

action (string, query, required)

The action to perform

Constraints: {'enum': ['query', 'parse', 'opensearch', 'help']}

format (string, query, optional, default: json)

Output format

Constraints: {'enum': ['json', 'xml', 'php']}

Examples (2)

MediaWiki Action API openapi-spec
curl 'https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php",
    params={
        'action': 'query',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("wiktionary")
result = api.fetch("w/api.php", action="query")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query");
const data = await resp.json();
MediaWiki Action API probe-gate
curl 'https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php",
    params={
        'action': 'query',
        'format': 'json',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("wiktionary")
result = api.fetch("w/api.php", action="query", format="json")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

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TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 03:48:10.881610 200 289ms
2026-04-16 02:33:19.039942 200 251ms
2026-04-15 01:17:38.940107 200 258ms
2026-04-15 01:03:58.972380 200 282ms
2026-04-14 03:11:47.943044 200 328ms
2026-04-14 02:11:42.171063 200 270ms
2026-04-12 14:44:30.978375 200 242ms
2026-04-12 14:12:25.633845 200 242ms
2026-04-10 04:22:18.313596 200 253ms
2026-04-10 01:00:00.800282 200 188ms
2026-04-09 03:39:13.998648 200 279ms
2026-04-09 02:49:38.938663 200 258ms
2026-04-03T18:48:07.250808 200 208ms