MediaWiki API help
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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
list=allrevisions (arv)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
List all revisions.
- arvprop
Which properties to get for each revision:
- ids
- The ID of the revision.
- flags
- Revision flags (minor).
- timestamp
- The timestamp of the revision.
- user
- User that made the revision.
- userid
- User ID of the revision creator.
- size
- Length (bytes) of the revision.
- sha1
- SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision.
- contentmodel
- Content model ID of the revision.
- comment
- Comment by the user for the revision.
- parsedcomment
- Parsed comment by the user for the revision.
- content
- Text of the revision.
- tags
- Tags for the revision.
- parsetree
- Deprecated. Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model
wikitext).
- Values (separate with | or alternative): ids, flags, timestamp, user, userid, size, sha1, contentmodel, comment, parsedcomment, content, tags, parsetree
- Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user
- arvlimit
Limit how many revisions will be returned.
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- arvexpandtemplates
- Deprecated.
Use action=expandtemplates instead. Expand templates in revision content (requires arvprop=content).
- Type: boolean (details)
- arvgeneratexml
- Deprecated.
Use action=expandtemplates or action=parse instead. Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires arvprop=content).
- Type: boolean (details)
- arvparse
- Deprecated.
Use action=parse instead. Parse revision content (requires arvprop=content). For performance reasons, if this option is used, arvlimit is enforced to 1.
- Type: boolean (details)
- arvsection
Only retrieve the content of this section number.
- arvdiffto
- Deprecated.
Use action=compare instead. Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.
- arvdifftotext
- Deprecated.
Use action=compare instead. Text to diff each revision to. Only diffs a limited number of revisions. Overrides arvdiffto. If arvsection is set, only that section will be diffed against this text.
- arvdifftotextpst
- Deprecated.
Use action=compare instead. Perform a pre-save transform on the text before diffing it. Only valid when used with arvdifftotext.
- Type: boolean (details)
- arvcontentformat
Serialization format used for arvdifftotext and expected for output of content.
- One of the following values: text/plain, application/json, text/x-wiki, text/javascript, text/css
- arvuser
Only list revisions by this user.
- Type: user name
- arvnamespace
Only list pages in this namespace.
Note: Due to miser mode, using this may result in fewer than arvlimit results returned before continuing; in extreme cases, zero results may be returned.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 828, 829, 2600
- To specify all values, use *.
- arvstart
The timestamp to start enumerating from.
- Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
- arvend
The timestamp to stop enumerating at.
- Type: timestamp (allowed formats)
- arvdir
In which direction to enumerate:
- newer
- List oldest first. Note: arvstart has to be before arvend.
- older
- List newest first (default). Note: arvstart has to be later than arvend.
- One of the following values: newer, older
- Default: older
- arvexcludeuser
Don't list revisions by this user.
- Type: user name
- arvcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- arvgeneratetitles
When being used as a generator, generate titles rather than revision IDs.
- Type: boolean (details)
- List the last 50 contributions by user Example.
- api.php?action=query&list=allrevisions&arvuser=Example&arvlimit=50 [open in sandbox]
- List the first 50 revisions in the main namespace.
- api.php?action=query&list=allrevisions&arvdir=newer&arvlimit=50 [open in sandbox]