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=paraminfo

(main | paraminfo)

Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Obtain information about API modules.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Parameter_information

Parameters:

modules: List of module names (values of the action and format parameters, or main). Can specify submodules with a +, or all submodules with +*, or all submodules recursively with +**.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
helpformat: Format of help strings.; One of the following values: html, none, raw, wikitext; Default: none
querymodules: Deprecated.; List of query module names (value of prop, meta or list parameter). Use modules=query+foo instead of querymodules=foo.; Values (separate with | or alternative): abusefilters, abuselog, allcategories, alldeletedrevisions, allfileusages, allimages, alllinks, allmessages, allpages, allredirects, allrevisions, alltransclusions, allusers, authmanagerinfo, backlinks, betafeatures, blocks, categories, categoryinfo, categorymembers, contributors, deletedrevisions, deletedrevs, duplicatefiles, embeddedin, extlinks, extracts, exturlusage, filearchive, filerepoinfo, fileusage, gadgetcategories, gadgets, imageinfo, images, imageusage, info, iwbacklinks, iwlinks, langbacklinks, langlinks, languageinfo, links, linkshere, logevents, mystashedfiles, oath, pageimages, pagepropnames, pageprops, pageswithprop, prefixsearch, protectedtitles, querypage, random, recentchanges, redirects, revisions, search, siteinfo, stashimageinfo, tags, templates, tokens, transcludedin, usercontribs, userinfo, users, watchlist, watchlistraw; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients allowed higher limits).
mainmodule: Deprecated.; Get information about the main (top-level) module as well. Use modules=main instead.
pagesetmodule: Deprecated.; Get information about the pageset module (providing titles= and friends) as well.
formatmodules: Deprecated.; List of format module names (value of format parameter). Use modules instead.; Values (separate with | or alternative): json, jsonfm, none, php, phpfm, rawfm, xml, xmlfm

Examples:

Show info for action=parse, format=jsonfm, action=query&list=allpages, and action=query&meta=siteinfo.: api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=parse|phpfm|query%2Ballpages|query%2Bsiteinfo [open in sandbox]
Show info for all submodules of action=query.: api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=query%2B* [open in sandbox]