MediaWiki API Demos

The MediaWiki Action API is a web service that allows access to some wiki-features like authentication, page operations, and search. It can provide meta information about the wiki and the logged-in user. This repository contains code snippets and demo apps in various programming languages to assist developers for easy use of various modules of the API.

:information_source: View a showcase of interactive demo apps built using the API on Wikimedia Toolforge: https://tools.wmflabs.org/apps-gallery/

Code snippets

• Python
• Javascript
• PHP
• MediaWikiJS

Demo apps

• Holidays viewer: Demo app that fetches the holidays for a given date from Wikipedia, with an option to login to add new holidays. The app uses API:Parse to fetch the holidays and API:Edit to add a new holiday.
• Nearby places viewer: Demo of geo search for wiki pages near a location using the Geolocation API and MediaWiki Action API's Geosearch module.
• Picture of the day viewer: Demo app that uses prop=images module to fetch Wikipedia's Picture of the Day (POTD) from a template page and displays it on a webpage. The app also allows users to go backward or forward a date to view other POTD.
• User contributions feed: Demo app that uses list=usercontribs module to fetch the top 50 edits made by a user.
• View more demo apps

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-api-demos.git
$ cd mediawiki-api-demos

For running python code samples: 
$ cd python
$ python3 filename.py 
Note: Install any necessary python modules with pip and enter any credentials 
required in the file to run the sample code

For running javascript code samples:
$ cd javascript
$ node filename.js
Note: Install any necessary node modules with npm and enter any credentials required
in the file to run the sample code

For running php code samples:
$ cd php
$ php filename.php
Note: Install necessary modules by `apt-get install php-cli php-curl` and enter any credentials
required in the file to run the sample code