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 i 1 i 2 i 3 i 4 i 5 i 6 i 7 i 8 i 9 i 10 i 11 i 12 i 13 i 14 i 15
- 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
- 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 i return
- format
The format of the output.
- One of the following values: json i jsonfm i xml i 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]