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
list=search (sr)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Perform a full text search.
- srsearch
Search for page titles or content matching this value. You can use the search string to invoke special search features, depending on what the wiki's search backend implements.
- This parameter is required.
- srnamespace
Search only within these namespaces.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): 0، 1، 2، 3، 4، 5، 6، 7، 8، 9، 10، 11، 12، 13، 14، 15
- To specify all values, use *.
- Default: 0
- srlimit
How many total pages to return.
- Type: integer or max
- The value must be between 1 and 500.
- Default: 10
- sroffset
When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.
- Type: integer
- Default: 0
- srwhat
Which type of search to perform.
- One of the following values: nearmatch، text، title
- srinfo
Which metadata to return.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): rewrittenquery، suggestion، totalhits
- Default: totalhits|suggestion|rewrittenquery
- srprop
Which properties to return:
- size
- Adds the size of the page in bytes.
- wordcount
- Adds the word count of the page.
- timestamp
- Adds the timestamp of when the page was last edited.
- snippet
- Adds a snippet of the page, with query term highlighting markup.
- titlesnippet
- Adds the page title, with query term highlighting markup.
- redirecttitle
- Adds the title of the matching redirect.
- redirectsnippet
- Adds the title of the matching redirect, with query term highlighting markup.
- sectiontitle
- Adds the title of the matching section.
- sectionsnippet
- Adds the title of the matching section, with query term highlighting markup.
- isfilematch
- Adds a boolean indicating if the search matched file content.
- categorysnippet
- Adds the matching category name, with query term highlighting markup.
- score
- Deprecated. Ignored.
- hasrelated
- Deprecated. Ignored.
- extensiondata
- Adds extra data generated by extensions.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): categorysnippet، extensiondata، isfilematch، redirectsnippet، redirecttitle، sectionsnippet، sectiontitle، size، snippet، timestamp، titlesnippet، wordcount، hasrelated، score
- Default: size|wordcount|timestamp|snippet
- srinterwiki
Include interwiki results in the search, if available.
- Type: boolean (details)
- srenablerewrites
Enable internal query rewriting. Some search backends can rewrite the query into another which is thought to provide better results, for instance by correcting spelling errors.
- Type: boolean (details)
- srsort
Set the sort order of returned results.
- One of the following values: relevance
- Default: relevance
- Search for meaning.
- api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=meaning [open in sandbox]
- Search texts for meaning.
- api.php?action=query&list=search&srwhat=text&srsearch=meaning [open in sandbox]
- Get page info about the pages returned for a search for meaning.
- api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=meaning&prop=info [open in sandbox]