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API:Links - MediaWiki

This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation. MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.11

GET request to find all the links on the provided page(s).

This module can be used as a generator .

The following documentation is the output of Special:ApiHelp/query+links, automatically generated by the pre-release version of MediaWiki that is running on this site (MediaWiki.org).

This module requires read rights.
This module can be used as a generator.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Returns all links from the given pages.

Specific parameters:

plnamespace: Show links in these namespaces only.; Values (separate with | or alternative): -1, -2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 90, 91, 92, 93, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 710, 711, 828, 829, 1198, 1199, 2600, 5500, 5501; To specify all values, use *.
pllimit: How many links to return.; Type: integer or max; The value must be between 1 and 500.; Default: 10
plcontinue: When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.
pltitles: Only list links to these titles. Useful for checking whether a certain page links to a certain title.; Separate values with | or alternative.; Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
pldir: The direction in which to list.; One of the following values: ascending, descending; Default: ascending

Example 1: Fetch all the links in a page[edit]

{
    "query": {
        "pages": [
            {
                "pageid": 736,
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Albert Einstein",
                "links": [
                    {
                        "ns": 0,
                        "title": "2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 0,
                        "title": "A priori and a posteriori"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 0,
                        "title": "Aage Bohr"
                    },
                    ...
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    get_links.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Links` module: Get all links on the given page(s)

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"

PARAMS = {
    "action": "query",
    "format": "json",
    "titles": "Albert Einstein",
    "prop": "links"
}

R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS)
DATA = R.json()

PAGES = DATA["query"]["pages"]

for k, v in PAGES.items():
    for l in v["links"]:
        print(l["title"])

<?php
/*
    get_links.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Links` module: Get all links on the given page(s)

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "format" => "json",
    "titles" => "Albert Einstein",
    "prop" => "links"
];

$url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params );

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$result = json_decode( $output, true );

foreach( $result["query"]["pages"] as $k => $v ) {
    foreach( $v["links"] as $k => $v ) {
        echo( $v["title"] . "\n" );
    }
}

/*
    get_links.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Links` module: Get all links on the given page(s)

    MIT License
*/

var url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; 

var params = {
    action: "query",
    format: "json",
    titles: "Albert Einstein",
    prop: "links"
};

url = url + "?origin=*";
Object.keys(params).forEach(function(key){url += "&" + key + "=" + params[key];});

fetch(url)
    .then(function(response){return response.json();})
    .then(function(response) {
        var pages = response.query.pages;
        for (var p in pages) {
            for (var l of pages[p].links) {
                console.log(l.title);
            }
        }
    })
    .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});

/*
	get_links.js

	MediaWiki API Demos
	Demo of `Links` module: Get all links on the given page(s)

	MIT License
*/

var params = {
		action: 'query',
		format: 'json',
		titles: 'Albert Einstein',
		prop: 'links'
	},
	api = new mw.Api();

api.get( params ).done( function ( data ) {
	var pages = data.query.pages,
		p;
	for ( p in pages ) {
		pages[ p ].links.forEach( function ( l ) {
			console.log( l.title );
		} );
	}
} );

Example 2: Fetch missing links[edit]

Get request to fetch missing or red links on Wikipedia:Most-wanted_articles. Two steps to do so:

Make a GET request to the Action API to return all links embedded on the provided page.
From further extraction, obtain those links that are missing and don't yet exist on English Wikipedia.

generator=links

query module's submodule

links

used as a

generator

module to get a set of links embedded on a page.

Response

{
  "batchcomplete": "", 
  "continue": {
    "continue": "gplcontinue||", 
    "gplcontinue": "297177|0|1965_in_sumo"
  }, 
  "query": {
    "pages": {
      "-1": {
        "missing": "", 
        "ns": 0, 
        "title": "(viii)"
      }, 
      "-10": {
        "missing": "", 
        "ns": 0, 
        "title": "1954 in sumo"
      }
      ...
    }
  }
}

get_red_links.py Python[edit]

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    get_red_links.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Links` module to identify red or missing links on a page.

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"

PARAMS = {
    "action": "query",
    "titles": "Wikipedia:Most-wanted_articles",
    "gpllimit": "20",
    "format": "json",
    "generator": "links"
}

R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS)
DATA = R.json()

PAGES = DATA['query']['pages']

for page in PAGES.values():
    if 'missing' in page:
        print(page['title'])

PHP[edit]

<?php
/*
    get_red_links.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Links` module to identify red or missing links on a page.

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "generator" => "links",
    "titles" => "Wikipedia:Most-wanted_articles",
    "gpllimit" => "20",
    "format" => "json"
];

$url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params );

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$result = json_decode( $output, true );

foreach( $result["query"]["pages"] as $page ){
    if( array_key_exists("missing",$page ) ){
        echo( $page["title"] . "\n" );
    }
}

JavaScript[edit]

/*
    get_red_links.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Links` module to identify red or missing links on a page.

    MIT License
*/

var url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; 

var params = {
    action: "query",
    generator: "links",
    titles: "Wikipedia:Most-wanted_articles",
    gpllimit: "20",
    format: "json"
};

url = url + "?origin=*";
Object.keys(params).forEach(function(key){url += "&" + key + "=" + params[key];});

fetch(url)
    .then(function(response){return response.json();})
    .then(function(response) {
        var pages = response.query.pages;
        for (var p in pages) {
            if(pages[p].hasOwnProperty("missing")){
                console.log(pages[p].title);
            }
        }
    })
    .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});

MediaWiki JS[edit]

/*
	get_red_links.js

	MediaWiki API Demos
	Demo of `Links` module to identify red or missing links on a page.

	MIT License
*/

var params = {
		action: 'query',
		generator: 'links',
		titles: 'Wikipedia:Most-wanted_articles',
		gpllimit: '20',
		format: 'json'
	},
	api = new mw.Api();

api.get( params ).done( function ( data ) {
	var pages = data.query.pages,
		p;
	for ( p in pages ) {
		if( pages[ p ].hasOwnProperty('missing') ){
			console.log( pages[ p ].title );
		}
	}
} );

v1.19: Introduced pldir
v1.17: Introduced pltitles
v1.13: Introduced pllimit, plcontinue

API:Linkshere - API:Properties submodule that finds pages which include a link to the given page.
API:Backlinks - API:Lists submodule that gets a list of pages which link to a given page.
API:Iwlinks - Find interwiki links on a given page (i.e, meta pages, special pages).
API:Iwbacklinks - Get a list of pages which are linked from a given interwiki link.
API:Extlinks - Find all external links on a given page.
API:Exturlusage - Get all pages that link to an external URL.
API:Langlinks - Get a list of language links from the given page. Language links represent translations.
API:Langbacklinks - Get a list of pages that contains a given language link.

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