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<td>MediaWiki version:</td> <td class="mw-version-versionbox" title="The latest stable version is 1.42"><div class="mw-version-versionnumber">≥ 1.26</div></td> </tr></tbody></table> Very often you will not get all the data you want in one API query. When this happens, the API will append an additional element (titled <code>continue</code>) to the results to indicate there is more data. The element that is returned will have two parts to it: One part will be a sub-element also titled <code>continue</code>. This will typically have an associated value that include the symbols <code>||</code> if there is data available to continue. The second part will be a sub-element (or multiple sub-elements) whose title is the abbreviation of whichever <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists">list</a><a href="/wiki/API:Lists" title="API:Lists"> </a> is used in the query, prefixed to the word <code>continue</code>. (So, for example, the sub-element for a query using <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:categorymembers" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:categorymembers">categorymembers</a><a href="/wiki/API:Categorymembers" title="API:Categorymembers"> </a> would be <code>cmcontinue</code>, the sub-element for a query using <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:allcategories" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:allcategories">allcategories</a><a href="/wiki/API:Allcategories" title="API:Allcategories"> </a> would be <code>accontinue</code>, the sub-element for a query using <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:protectedtitles" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:protectedtitles">protectedtitles</a><a href="/wiki/API:Protectedtitles" title="API:Protectedtitles"> </a> would be <code>ptcontinue</code>, etc.) To retrieve further data when the <code>continue</code> element is present, you must add the second sub-element as a parameter to the next API request. For example, if a query using the list <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:allcategories" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:allcategories">allcategories</a><a href="/wiki/API:Allcategories" title="API:Allcategories"> </a> contained additional results, then the next API query made should include <code>accontinue=</code> as parameter, along with whatever the value of <code>accontinue</code> was in the results of the first query. To get all results, this can be repeated until an API result does not have a <code>continue</code> element in the results, indicating there are no more data matching the query. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="batchcomplete">batchcomplete</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=API:Continue&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: batchcomplete">edit</a>]</div> When you make an API request using a <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Generator" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Generator">generator</a><a href="/wiki/API:Generator" class="mw-redirect" title="API:Generator"> </a> together with properties, the API result may signal to continue because there are more properties to retrieve for the pages so far (in which case the same set of pages is returned but with the next set of properties), because there are more pages from the generator, or both. From version 1.25 onwards, the API returns a <code>batchcomplete</code> element to indicate that all data for the current "batch" of pages has been returned and the <code>continue</code> element doesn't contain continuation data for properties, but instead can contain continuation data for the generator. This can be useful to avoid building a combined result set for thousands of pages when using a generator together with prop modules that may themselves need continuation. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Backwards_compatibility_of_continue">Backwards compatibility of continue</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=API:Continue&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Backwards compatibility of continue">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r4199130"> <table class="mw-version mw-version-ltr mw-version-version mw-version-version-unsupported mw-version-and-later"><tbody><tr> <td>MediaWiki version:</td> <td class="mw-version-versionbox" title="The latest stable version is 1.42"><div class="mw-version-versionnumber">≥ 1.9</div></td> </tr></tbody></table> From MediaWiki 1.21 to 1.25, it was required to specify <code>continue=</code> (i.e. with an empty string as the value) in the initial request to get continuation data in the format described above. Without doing that, API results would indicate there is additional data by returning a <code>query-continue</code> element, explained in <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Raw_query_continue" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Raw query continue">Raw query continue</a><a href="/wiki/API:Raw_query_continue" title="API:Raw query continue"> </a>. Prior to 1.21, that raw continuation was the only option. If your application needs to use the raw continuation in MediaWiki 1.26 or later, you must specify <code>rawcontinue=</code> to request it. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=API:Continue&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Examples">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_1:_Continuing_allcategories">Example 1: Continuing allcategories</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=API:Continue&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Example 1: Continuing allcategories">edit</a>]</div> <div>The following example uses the <code><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Allcategories" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Allcategories">allcategories</a><a href="/wiki/API:Allcategories" title="API:Allcategories"> </a></code> <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists">list</a><a href="/wiki/API:Lists" title="API:Lists"> </a> to request results that exceed the default <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists#Additional_notes" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists">limit</a><a href="/wiki/API:Lists#Additional_notes" title="API:Lists"> </a>, and thus need to be continued to return more results. Notice that because the <code>allcategories</code> list is used, the <code>continue</code>'s second sub-element is titled <code>accontinue</code>.</div><div class="plainlinks" style="margin-bottom: 0.3em"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allcategories&acprefix=List%20of&formatversion=2">api.php?action=query&list=allcategories&acprefix=List%20of&formatversion=2</a> <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=allcategories&acprefix=List%20of&formatversion=2">[try in ApiSandbox]</a></div><div style="display:block;margin-left:0;overflow:auto;"><table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin-top:.2em; border:1px solid silver;text-align:left; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><th style="font-size:112%;background:#F8FCFF;color:black;text-align:center">Result</th></tr><tr><td style="font-size:112%;background:white;border:solid 1px silver;padding:8px"><div><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre> "continue": { "accontinue": "List_of_19th_century_baseball_players", "continue": "-||" }, "batchcomplete": "", "query": { "allcategories": [ { "*": "List of" }, { "*": "List of Palestinians" }, { "*": "List of \"M\" series military vehicles" }, { "*": "List of ''The Fast and the Furious'' characters" }, { "*": "List of 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd" }, { "*": "List of 1919 Actors" }, { "*": "List of 1972 births" }, { "*": "List of 1999 ballet premieres" }, { "*": "List of 19th-century Russian artists" }, { "*": "List of 19th century Russian artists" } ] } } </pre></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_2:_Continuing_categorymembers">Example 2: Continuing categorymembers</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=API:Continue&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Example 2: Continuing categorymembers">edit</a>]</div> <div>The following example uses the <code><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Categorymembers" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Categorymembers">categorymembers</a><a href="/wiki/API:Categorymembers" title="API:Categorymembers"> </a></code> <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists">list</a><a href="/wiki/API:Lists" title="API:Lists"> </a> to request results that exceed the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists#Additional_notes" title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Lists">limit</a><a href="/wiki/API:Lists#Additional_notes" title="API:Lists"> </a> (<code>cmlimit</code>), and thus need to be continued to return more results. Notice that because the <code>categorymembers</code> list is used, the <code>continue</code>'s second sub-element is titled <code>cmcontinue</code>.</div><div class="plainlinks" style="margin-bottom: 0.3em"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category%3AWikipedians_interested_in_history&formatversion=2&cmlimit=50">api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category%3AWikipedians_interested_in_history&formatversion=2&cmlimit=50</a> <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category%3AWikipedians_interested_in_history&formatversion=2&cmlimit=50">[try in ApiSandbox]</a></div><div style="display:block;margin-left:0;overflow:auto;"><table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin-top:.2em; border:1px solid silver;text-align:left; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><th style="font-size:112%;background:#F8FCFF;color:black;text-align:center">Result</th></tr><tr><td style="font-size:112%;background:white;border:solid 1px silver;padding:8px"><div><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre>{ "batchcomplete": true, "continue": { "cmcontinue": "page|2a2a4c4e2a402a443e382a403a30011201dc11|21583092", "continue": "-||" }, "query": { "categorymembers": [ { "pageid": 3801230, "ns": 10, "title": "Template:User history" }, { "pageid": 7769732, "ns": 10, "title": "Template:User history2" }, { "pageid": 56312624, "ns": 10, "title": "Template:User history3" }, { "pageid": 8364349, "ns": 2, "title": "User:-1348-" }, { "pageid": 12553892, "ns": 2, "title": "User:(RT)" }, { "pageid": 60272884, "ns": 2, "title": "User:MPSHeritage" }, { "pageid": 42055428, "ns": 2, "title": "User:Tyssil" }, { "pageid": 10356432, "ns": 2, "title": "User:1GoodNight4Life" }, { "pageid": 59180278, "ns": 2, "title": "User:1I0I1I0I1I0" }, { "pageid": 51651783, "ns": 2, "title": "User:01iproject09" }, { "pageid": 29595961, "ns": 2, "title": "User:3family6" }, { "pageid": 43181830, "ns": 2, "title": "User:3family6/Education and interests" }, { "pageid": 17919048, "ns": 2, "title": "User:03md" }, { "pageid": 44202586, "ns": 2, "title": "User:4Sage Wiki" }, { "pageid": 64607473, "ns": 2, "title": "User:05Pier" }, { "pageid": 46626298, "ns": 2, "title": "User:16pedia2" }, { "pageid": 33371141, "ns": 2, "title": "User:17adavis7" }, { "pageid": 15797963, "ns": 2, "title": "User:21stCenturyGreenstuff" }, { "pageid": 61571792, "ns": 2, "title": "User:28regiment" }, { "pageid": 17053340, "ns": 2, "title": "User:37ophiuchi" }, { "pageid": 9781448, "ns": 2, "title": "User:88wolfmaster" }, { "pageid": 17120424, "ns": 2, "title": "User:88wolfmaster/Userboxes" }, { "pageid": 16369371, "ns": 2, "title": "User:123w456t" }, { "pageid": 69413683, "ns": 2, "title": "User:296cherry" }, { "pageid": 41449363, "ns": 2, "title": "User:636Buster" }, { "pageid": 8451054, "ns": 2, "title": "User:1549bcp" }, { "pageid": 26153484, "ns": 2, "title": "User:1951bfrj" }, { "pageid": 28820985, "ns": 2, "title": "User:11614soup" }, { "pageid": 69602489, "ns": 2, "title": "User:16272js" }, { "pageid": 9578722, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A Geographer" }, { "pageid": 36155511, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A knyght ther was" }, { "pageid": 6637293, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A student of history" }, { "pageid": 22308356, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A Werewolf" }, { "pageid": 39893010, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A. Pseudonym" }, { "pageid": 36267514, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A.Aboumrad" }, { "pageid": 8475873, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A.Arc" }, { "pageid": 5283037, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A.J.Chesswas" }, { "pageid": 26516505, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A.kamburov" }, { "pageid": 40306753, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A.sky245" }, { "pageid": 6320018, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A.Zhubrovsky" }, { "pageid": 68777172, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A2Bros" }, { "pageid": 26764821, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A2soup" }, { "pageid": 68203375, "ns": 2, "title": "User:A0231050705" }, { "pageid": 26356724, "ns": 2, "title": "User:Aaa8841" }, { "pageid": 61127272, "ns": 2, "title": "User:Aaghi" }, { "pageid": 5410981, "ns": 2, "title": "User:Aak044" }, { "pageid": 23936323, "ns": 2, "title": "User:Aardvarkzz" }, { "pageid": 2934321, "ns": 2, "title": "User:Aaron of Mpls" }, { "pageid": 40974272, "ns": 2, "title": "User:Aaron-Kocourek" }, { "pageid": 13618776, "ns": 2, "title": "User:Aaroncorey" } ] } } </pre></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_3:_Python_code_for_iterating_through_all_results">Example 3: Python code for iterating through all results</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=API:Continue&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Example 3: Python code for iterating through all results">edit</a>]</div> Here is Python code showing how to iterate over query results (using the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pypi.org/project/requests/">python requests lib</a>). Note that you should not manipulate or depend on any specifics of the values returned inside the <code>continue</code> element, as they may change. <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-python mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre>for result in query({'generator': 'allpages', 'prop': 'links'}): # process result data ... def query(request): request['action'] = 'query' request['format'] = 'json' last_continue = {} while True: # Clone original request req = request.copy() # Modify it with the values returned in the 'continue' section of the last result. req.update(last_continue) # Call API result = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php', params=req).json() if 'error' in result: raise Exception(result['error']) if 'warnings' in result: print(result['warnings']) if 'query' in result: yield result['query'] if 'continue' not in result: break last_continue = result['continue'] </pre></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=API:Continue&oldid=6781183">https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=API:Continue&oldid=6781183</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 3 October 2024, at 02:11.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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