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tpl-sidebar-heading-first"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Basics</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content tpl-sidebar-content-first"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Etiquette" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Etiquette">Etiquette and usage guidelines</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Etiquette" title="API:Etiquette"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Query" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Query">All query modules</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Query" title="API:Query"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Properties" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Properties">All page properties</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Properties" title="API:Properties"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists">All list modules</a><span style="display:none"><a 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title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Login">Login</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Login" title="API:Login"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Logout" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Logout">Logout</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Logout" title="API:Logout"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Assert" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Assert">Verifying authentication (assertions)</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Assert" title="API:Assert"> </a></span></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-heading"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Accounts and Users</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Account_creation" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Account creation">Create an account</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Account_creation" title="API:Account creation"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Block" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Block">Block or unblock a user</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Block" title="API:Block"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Userinfo" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Userinfo">Get info about the current user</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Userinfo" title="API:Userinfo"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Watchlist_feed" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Watchlist feed">Get the current user's watchlist as a feed</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Watchlist_feed" title="API:Watchlist feed"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Options" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Options">Change user options</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Options" title="API:Options"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:User_group_membership" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:User group membership">Change user group membership</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:User_group_membership" title="API:User group membership"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Emailuser" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Emailuser">Send an email</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Emailuser" title="API:Emailuser"> </a></span></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-heading"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Page Operations</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Edit" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Edit">Create and edit a page</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Edit" title="API:Edit"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Get_the_contents_of_a_page" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Get the contents of a page">Get the contents of a page</a><span style="display:none"><a 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href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Undelete" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Undelete">Restore revisions of a deleted page</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Undelete" title="API:Undelete"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Protect" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Protect">Change a page's protection level</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Protect" title="API:Protect"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:SetPageLanguage" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:SetPageLanguage">Change a page's language</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:SetPageLanguage" title="API:SetPageLanguage"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Changing_wiki_content" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Changing wiki content">More...</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Changing_wiki_content" title="API:Changing wiki content"> </a></span></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-heading"> <th class="" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 1em;;">Search</th> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-content"> <td class="" style=";"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Opensearch" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Opensearch">Search wiki pages by title (OpenSearch)</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Opensearch" title="API:Opensearch"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Search" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Search">Advanced search for wiki pages by title or text</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Search" title="API:Search"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Geosearch" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Geosearch">Search wiki pages near a location</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Geosearch" title="API:Geosearch"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Languagesearch" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Languagesearch">Search for a language name</a><span style="display:none"><a 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href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Nearby_places_viewer" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Nearby places viewer">Nearby places viewer</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Nearby_places_viewer" title="API:Nearby places viewer"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Picture_of_the_day_viewer" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Picture of the day viewer">Picture of the day viewer</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Picture_of_the_day_viewer" title="API:Picture of the day viewer"> </a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Holidays_viewer" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Holidays viewer">Holidays viewer</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Holidays_viewer" title="API:Holidays viewer"> </a></span></li></ul></td> </tr><tr class="tpl-sidebar-navbar"> <td style=""><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r4692751">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar 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write the code from scratch when their projects interact with an API. </p><p>This page contains a set of lists, by language, of several recommended client libraries that can be used with the MediaWiki Action API. The recommendations are based on evaluations using <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/Gold_standard" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/Gold standard">API:Client code/Gold standard</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Client_code/Gold_standard" title="API:Client code/Gold standard"> </a></span>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6651107">.mw-parser-output .note{background-position:left 7px top 50%;padding:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 40px;margin:0.5em 0;overflow:hidden;background-color:#f8f9fa;color:#333;background-repeat:no-repeat;border:1px solid #ddd}.mw-parser-output .note-inline{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .note-info{background-color:#eaf3ff;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/OOjs_UI_icon_information-progressive.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#a3caff;padding-left:40px;min-height:25px}.mw-parser-output .note-reminder{background-color:#fff9ea;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/OOjs_UI_icon_lightbulb-yellow.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#fc3;min-height:25px}.mw-parser-output .note-warn{background-color:#fff9ea;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/OOjs_UI_icon_alert-warning.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#fc3;min-height:25px}.mw-parser-output .note-error{background-color:#fee7e6;color:#333;background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/OOjs_UI_icon_notice-destructive.svg");background-size:25px;border-color:#c33;min-height:25px}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .note{background-color:transparent;color:inherit}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .note{background-color:transparent;color:inherit}}</style><div role="note" class="note note-info">New and/or unevaluated libraries can be added to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/All" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/All">API:Client_code/All</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Client_code/All" title="API:Client code/All"> </a></span>.</div> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="API_client_libraries">API client libraries</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6651107"><div role="note" class="note note-info"><i>Last activity</i> refers to the last commit in the repository.<br /> Dates and version numbers were updated on 2019-06-19.</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awk">Awk</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/greencardamom/BotWikiAwk">BotWikiAwk</a> </td> <td>Framework and libraries for creating bots. Includes example bots. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-3-27">27 March 2019</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/greencardamom/Wikiget">Wikiget</a> </td> <td>Awk CLI program to interface with MediaWiki API for read/write including OAuth. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-6-8">8 June 2019</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bash">Bash</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/BorderCloud/bash-mediawiki">bash-mediawiki</a> </td> <td>An example with Curl that allows easy editing/uploading of a wiki through the MediaWiki API. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2021-8-17">17 August 2021</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="C++"><span id="C.2B.2B"></span>C++</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Libmediawiki">libmediawiki</a> </td> <td>A library that allows easy editing of a wiki through the MediaWiki API. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2017-9-9">9 September 2017</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Common_Lisp">Common Lisp</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/AccelerationNet/cl-mediawiki">cl-mediawiki</a> </td> <td>A Common Lisp wrapper for the MediaWiki API. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2016-11-10">10 November 2016</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elixir">Elixir</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release Date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gitlab.com/adamwight/mediawiki_client_ex">mediawiki_client_ex</a> </td> <td>Adapter for the Action API, EventStreams, and ORES. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hexdocs.pm/mediawiki_client/readme.html">Documentation</a>) </td> <td>0.4.1 </td> <td><time datetime="2022-12-20">20 December 2022</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2022-12-21">21 December 2022</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Go">Go</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/sadbox/go-mediawiki">go-mediawiki</a> </td> <td>Go wrapper for the MediaWiki API. </td> <td>v0.1 </td> <td><time datetime="2013-11-4">4 November 2013</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2017-2-8">8 February 2017</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/cgt/go-mwclient">go-mwclient</a> </td> <td>Wrapper for the MediaWiki API (supports maxlag, query continuations, OAuth). </td> <td>v1.2.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2020-6-3">3 June 2020</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2020-6-3">3 June 2020</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Haskell">Haskell</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mediawiki">haskell mediawiki</a> </td> <td>A complete Haskell binding to the MediaWiki API letting you programmatically access (read and write) MediaWiki content. </td> <td>0.2.6 </td> <td><time datetime="2013-11-20">20 November 2013</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2013-11-20">20 November 2013</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Java">Java</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/eldur/jwbf">JavaWikiBotFramework</a> </td> <td>A library to retrieve data from and maintain MediaWiki-based wikis such as Wikipedia. </td> <td>4.0.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2016-9-13">13 September 2016</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-2-15">15 February 2019</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/fastily/jwiki">jwiki</a> </td> <td>A library for effortlessly interacting with Wikipedia/MediaWiki. </td> <td>1.8.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2020-4-14">14 April 2020</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2020-5-6">6 May 2020</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/axkr/info.bliki.wikipedia_parser">Bliki Engine</a> </td> <td>Can convert wikicode to HTML, DocBook or PDF. Has a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bitbucket.org/axelclk/info.bliki.wiki/wiki/MediaWikiAPISupport">helper library</a> for API calls. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-4-27">27 April 2019</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>More Java libraries available at <a href="/wiki/API:Client_code/All#Java" title="API:Client code/All">API:Client_code/All#Java</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="JavaScript">JavaScript</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwn">mwn</a> (Node.js) </td> <td>Mwn is a modern and feature-rich API client with support for both JavaScript and TypeScript. Has classes for conveniently working with page titles and parsing wikitext. Supports both OAuth and BotPasswords. </td> <td>v2.0.2 </td> <td><time datetime="2023-09-30">30 September 2023</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2024-04-06">6 April 2024</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/Fannon/mwbot">mwbot</a> (Node.js) </td> <td>MWBot uses the Promise pattern and other ES6 methodologies, optimised for creating bots that make edits. Works with any MediaWiki site. </td> <td>v2.0.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2017-10-30">30 October 2017</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2021-02-01">1 February 2021</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/macbre/nodemw">nodemw</a> (Node.js) </td> <td>A generic MediaWiki API client for Node.js. </td> <td>v0.16.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2018-09-16">16 September 2018</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2021-10-29">29 October 2021</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/kanasimi/wikiapi">wikiapi</a> (Node.js) </td> <td>A simple way to access MediaWiki API via JavaScript with simple wikitext parser. </td> <td>v1.16.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2020-10-01">1 October 2020</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2021-10-22">22 October 2021</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a class="external text" href="https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/mw.Api.html">mediawiki.api</a> (browser) </td> <td>Generic MediaWiki API client for client-side JavaScript. It ships with MediaWiki core as a ResourceLoader module bundle. It abstracts some high-level concepts and provides a generic client for other queries. </td> <td colspan="3">Maintained as part of MediaWiki. </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In-wiki JavaScript clients: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Bawolff/mwapilib2.js" class="extiw" title="n:User:Bawolff/mwapilib2.js">mwapilib2</a> </td> <td>A layer overtop of the requests. Make JS gadgets easier. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2016-9-25">25 September 2016</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User_talk:Conrad.Irwin/Api.js" class="extiw" title="wikt:User talk:Conrad.Irwin/Api.js">JsMwApi</a> </td> <td>A convenience wrapper around raw requests, with some helpers for editing and parsing. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2014-6-11">11 June 2014</time> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>More JavaScript libraries available at <a href="/wiki/API:Client_code/All#JavaScript" title="API:Client code/All">API:Client_code/All#JavaScript</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lua">Lua</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/trougnouf/dtMediaWiki/blob/master/dtMediaWiki.lua">dtMediaWiki</a> </td> <td>Makes query (tokens, userinfo), clientlogin, upload, and logout calls. It handles HTTPS requests and cookies and can be used to upload files to Wikimedia Commons. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2018-9-20">20 September 2018</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MATLAB">MATLAB</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/JRCSTU/MatWiki">MatWiki</a> </td> <td>A preliminary (as of Feb 2019) MATLAB R2016b(9.1.x) client supporting just bot-logins & semantic #ask queries. </td> <td>v1.0.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2019-2-19">19 February 2019</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-2-19">19 February 2019</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=".NET">.NET</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiFunctions" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:WikiFunctions">WikiFunctions</a> </td> <td>Library with classes for editing and getting lists of pages via the API, used by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AWB" class="extiw" title="w:WP:AWB">AutoWikiBrowser</a>. </td> <td>6.2.1.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2021-6-8">8 June 2021</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2023-10-5">5 October 2023</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/svick/LINQ-to-Wiki">LinqToWiki</a> </td> <td>Strongly typed library for accessing most of MediaWiki API, with support for autocompletion. </td> <td>1.5.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2015-5-7">7 May 2015</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2015-5-7">7 May 2015</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/CXuesong/WikiClientLibrary">WikiClientLibrary</a> </td> <td>A .NET Standard & asynchronous MediaWiki API client library for wiki sites. The library also supports Flow/Wikibase/Wikia-specific API. </td> <td>v0.7.5 </td> <td><time datetime="2021-1-31">31 January 2021</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2022-11-5">5 November 2022</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>More .NET libraries available at <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/All#.NET" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/All">API:Client code/All#.NET</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="OCaml">OCaml</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/ppedrot/ocaml-mediawiki">ocaml-mediawiki</a> </td> <td>A high-level binding for the MediaWiki API written in OCaml. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2012-8-29">29 August 2012</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Perl">Perl</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://metacpan.org/pod/MediaWiki::Bot">MediaWiki::Bot</a> </td> <td>A higher-level Perl module with read and write functions. Easily extensible with plugins, for example <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://metacpan.org/pod/MediaWiki::Bot::Plugin::Admin">to provide administrator functions</a> (<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/Evaluations/MediaWiki-Bot" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/Evaluations/MediaWiki-Bot">Evaluation</a>). <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/MediaWiki-Bot/MediaWiki-Bot">source code on GitHub</a>. </p> </td> <td>5.006003 </td> <td><time datetime="2016-7-7">7 July 2016</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2016-7-7">7 July 2016</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://metacpan.org/pod/MediaWiki::API">MediaWiki::API</a> </td> <td>A Perl module for interfacing with the MediaWiki API with file upload/download and editing support. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://packages.debian.org/libmediawiki-api-perl">Debian package</a>). (<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/Evaluations/MediaWiki-API" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/Evaluations/MediaWiki-API">Evaluation</a>). </td> <td>0.41 </td> <td><time datetime="2015-11-13">13 November 2015</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2015-11-13">13 November 2015</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="PHP">PHP</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/addwiki/mediawiki-api-base">mediawiki-api-base</a> </td> <td>Library for basic <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki" title="Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> api use. </td> <td>2.4.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2017-11-2">2 November 2017</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-7-9">9 July 2019</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/addwiki/mediawiki-api">mediawiki-api</a> </td> <td>A simple library for interacting with the MediaWiki API. </td> <td>0.7.2 </td> <td><time datetime="2017-11-20">20 November 2017</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-4-6">6 April 2019</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/addwiki/wikibase-api">wikibase-api</a> </td> <td>Library for querying <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata">Wikidata</a>. </td> <td>0.7 </td> <td><time datetime="2016-7-4">4 July 2016</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2018-8-17">17 August 2018</time> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>More PHP libraries available at <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/All#PHP" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/All">API:Client code/All#PHP</a>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6824882">.mw-parser-output table.ambox{margin:0 10%;width:unset;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output table.ambox+table.ambox,.mw-parser-output table.ambox+link+table.ambox,.mw-parser-output table.ambox+style+table.ambox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox th.mbox-text,.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em}.mw-parser-output .ambox td.mbox-imageright{padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-notice{border-left-color:#36c}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-speedy{background-color:var(--background-color-error-subtle,#fee7e6)}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-delete,.mw-parser-output table.ambox-speedy{border-left-color:var(--background-color-error--active,#b32424)}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-content{border-left-color:#f28500}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-style{border-left-color:#fc3}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-move{border-left-color:#9932cc}.mw-parser-output table.ambox-protection{border-left-color:#a2a9b1}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;box-sizing:border-box;width:238px;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}</style><table class="ambox-notice box-Notice ambox plainlinks metadata" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div style="width:52px"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/OOjs_UI_icon_information-progressive.svg/40px-OOjs_UI_icon_information-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/OOjs_UI_icon_information-progressive.svg/60px-OOjs_UI_icon_information-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/OOjs_UI_icon_information-progressive.svg/80px-OOjs_UI_icon_information-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">Sometimes people try to use these kind of libraries to access a MediaWiki installation on the same server. This is often unnecessary because MediaWiki itself is written in PHP, especially when the only purpose of the script is interacting with MediaWiki. With <code>require</code> <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:WebStart.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:WebStart.php">WebStart.php</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:WebStart.php" title="Manual:WebStart.php"> </a></span> (<code>MW_INSTALL_PATH</code> may need to be set beforehand, see <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$IP" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$IP">Manual:$IP</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:$IP" title="Manual:$IP"> </a></span>), a script gets access to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Code" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Code">MediaWiki components</a> and consequently it can <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Calling_internally" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Calling internally">call the API internally</a> or use other MediaWiki classes and functions directly, which greatly reduces server load.</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Python">Python</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Type hints </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot">Pywikibot</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot" title="Manual:Pywikibot"> </a></span> (<a class="external text" href="https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/">docs</a>) </td> <td style="background:#9F9;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td>A collection of Python scripts and a powerful library for bot writing. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywikibot/">PyPI</a>) (<a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/pywikibot/core" class="extiw" title="git:pywikibot/core">Git repository</a>) (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6651115">.mw-parser-output .irc-connect>a{color:green}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .irc-connect>a{color:#12c812}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .irc-connect>a{color:#12c812}}</style><span class="plainlinks" style="font-family: monospace,Courier; white-space: pre-wrap !important; word-wrap: break-word; max-width: 1200px; overflow: auto;" title="#pywikibot on Libera.Chat IRC"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/pywikibot">#pywikibot</a></span> <sup class="plainlinks irc-connect"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#pywikibot">connect</a></sup>) (<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/Evaluations/Pywikibot" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/Evaluations/Pywikibot">Evaluation</a>). </td> <td>9.5.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2024-10-30">30 October 2024</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2024-11">November 2024</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/fastily/pwiki">pwiki</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fastily.github.io/pwiki/">docs</a>) </td> <td style="background:#9F9;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td>A Python library for developing bots/tools, focused on ease of use and simplicity. </td> <td>1.1.1 </td> <td><time datetime="2021-10-15">15 October 2021</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2022-5-28">28 May 2022</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient">mwclient</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mwclient.readthedocs.io/">docs</a>) </td> <td style="background:#F99;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td>Python library that makes most of the API functions accessible. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mwclient/">PyPI</a>) (<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/Evaluations/mwclient" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/Evaluations/mwclient">Evaluation</a>). </td> <td>0.10.1 </td> <td><time datetime="2020-5-28">28 May 2020</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2021-9-26">26 September 2021</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/lahwaacz/wiki-scripts">wiki-scripts</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lahwaacz.github.io/wiki-scripts/">docs</a>) </td> <td style="background:#F99;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td>Framework for writing bots, maintenance scripts or performing data analysis. </td> <td>1.2 </td> <td><time datetime="2017-12-31">31 December 2017</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-6-13">13 June 2019</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Simple Python wrappers for no-abstraction interfaces to the MediaWiki API and basic session handling: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Type hints </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pypi.org/project/pywikiapi/">pywikiapi</a> </td> <td style="background:#F99;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td>A minimalistic library that handles some of the core MediaWiki API complexities like handling continuations, login, errors, and warnings, but does not impose any additional abstraction layers. </td> <td>1.3.2 </td> <td><time datetime="2019-4-13">13 April 2019</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-4-13">13 April 2019</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikipedia.readthedocs.io/">docs</a>) </td> <td style="background:#F99;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td>A Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia. </td> <td>v1.1 </td> <td><time datetime="2013-12-24">24 December 2013</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2016-11-11">11 November 2016</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/alexz-enwp/wikitools">wikitools</a> </td> <td style="background:#F99;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td>Provides several layers of abstraction around the API. Doesn't support Python 3. </td> <td>0.41 </td> <td><time datetime="2015-6-7">7 June 2015</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2016-8-28">28 August 2016</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>More Python libraries available at <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/All#Python" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/All">API:Client code/All#Python</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="R">R</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/WikipediR/index.html">WikipediR</a> </td> <td>A wrapper for the MediaWiki API, aimed particularly at the Wikimedia 'production' wikis, such as Wikipedia. Can be used to retrieve page text, information about users or the history of pages, and elements of the category tree. </td> <td>1.5.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2017-2-15">15 February 2017</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2017-2-15">15 February 2017</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ruby">Ruby</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/ftb-gamepedia/mediawiki-butt-ruby">MediaWiki::Butt</a> </td> <td>Stable and powerful Ruby framework for the API. (<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/Evaluations/MediaWiki-Butt" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/Evaluations/MediaWiki-Butt">Evaluation</a>) </td> <td>3.0.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2017-10-19">19 October 2017</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-1-3">3 January 2019</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/kenpratt/wikipedia-client">wikipedia-client</a> </td> <td>Ruby framework using the API. </td> <td>v1.10.0 </td> <td><time datetime="2018-3-5">5 March 2018</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2018-3-5">5 March 2018</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/projects/mediawiki/ruby/api" class="extiw" title="gerrit:admin/projects/mediawiki/ruby/api">MediaWiki Ruby API</a> </td> <td>Ruby API client library in active development by <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Release Engineering Team">Wikimedia Foundation Release Engineering</a>. </td> <td>0.71 </td> <td><time datetime="2017-1-31">31 January 2017</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2017-12-5">5 December 2017</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>More Ruby libraries available at <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/All#Ruby" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/All">API:Client code/All#Ruby</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rust">Rust</h3></div> <table class="wikitable" style="width:100%"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://crates.io/crates/wikibase">Wikibase RS</a> </td> <td>Rust library to talk to the Wikibase API and serialize data into Rust data structures. </td> <td>0.37 </td> <td><time datetime="2019-6-19">19 June 2019</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-6-19">19 June 2019</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/magnusmanske/mediawiki_rust">mediawiki_rust</a> </td> <td>A MediaWiki client library in Rust. </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td><time datetime="2020-11-16">16 November 2020</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mwbot-rs" title="Mwbot-rs">mwbot-rs</a> </td> <td>A framework for writing bots on MediaWiki </td> <td>0.4.3 </td> <td><time datetime="2022-10-15">15 October 2022</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2022-11-5">5 November 2022</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://crates.io/crates/wiki">wiki</a> </td> <td>Library for interacting with MediaWiki APIs </td> <td>0.0.3 </td> <td><time datetime="2022-8-10">10 August 2022</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2022-11-05">5 November 2022</time> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>More Rust libraries available at <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Client_code/All#Rust" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Client code/All">API:Client code/All#Rust</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scala">Scala</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>Last release </th> <th>Release date </th> <th>Last activity </th></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/intracer/scalawiki">scalawiki</a> </td> <td>MediaWiki client in Scala. </td> <td>0.6.3 </td> <td><time datetime="2020-9-17">17 September 2020</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-9-28">28 September 2019</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework">dbpedia extraction framework</a> </td> <td>Data extraction framework for DBpedia with support Wiki source retrieved via MediaWiki API. </td> <td>DBpedia_2015-10 </td> <td><time datetime="2016-7-25">25 July 2016</time> </td> <td><time datetime="2019-4-13">13 April 2019</time> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/ritschwumm/scmw">scmw</a> </td> <td>Simple 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