MediaWiki API help

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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page

action=opensearch

(mainopensearch)

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, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 710, 711, 828, 829
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
profile

Search profile to use.

strict
Strict profile with few punctuation characters removed but diacritics and stress marks are kept.
normal
Few punctuation characters, some diacritics and stopwords removed.
fuzzy
Similar to normal with typo correction (two typos supported).
fast-fuzzy
Experimental fuzzy profile (may be removed at any time)
classic
Classic prefix, few punctuation characters and some diacritics removed.
engine_autoselect
Let the search engine decide on the best profile to use.
One of the following values: classic, engine_autoselect, fast-fuzzy, fuzzy, normal, strict
Default: engine_autoselect
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, return
format

The format of the output.

One of the following values: json, jsonfm, xml, 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]