Template:ApiEx

api.php? [try in ApiSandbox]

Template documentation

Use this template on API documentation pages to format an example API request.

Note as an alternative, {{Api help}} transcludes localized API documentation generated from source code which normally has API examples in it.

User:SPage (WMF)/ApiEx utility creates a {{ApiEx}} template invocation if you paste an api.php URL into it.

Usage

{{ApiEx
| desc=Capitalization, localization, "_" => " ", "Project" => "Wikipedia", ...
| p1=action=query
| p2=titles=Project:articleA{{!}}article_B
| result=<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
<api>
  <query>
    <normalized>
      <n from="Project:articleA" to="Wikipedia:ArticleA" />
      <n from="article_B" to="Article B" />
    </normalized>
    <pages>
      <page ns="4" title="Wikipedia:ArticleA" missing="" />
      <page ns="0" title="Article B" missing="" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>
</syntaxhighlight>
| post={{ApiEx/Post|parameter=days|value=integer|default=7|comment=comment}}
}}

Parameters

• desc — API request description
• lang — two-letter code for the wiki language. 'en' by default.
• site — full URL of site to use in example (e.g., www.mediawiki.org). Overrides lang parameter.
• p1-p9 — parameter groups, each containing either one param=value pair or multiple pairs each separated by an ampersand (&), e.g. p3=param=value&paramB=valueBbbb
• result — the result of the query execution. Add the template, preview, click the api.php link, and copy and paste the API response into the template as | result=<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript">PASTE RESPONSE HERE</syntaxhighlight>
• post — a "list" of {{ApiEx/Post}} objects, to generate a post table
• collapse — set to "no" to stop "result" and "post" sections from being collapsed with {{Collapse top}}/{{Collapse bottom}}
• apisandbox — whether to show a "[try in ApiSandbox]" link that loads the example API query parameters into Special:ApiSandbox. Default is 1, add | apisandbox=0 to not show this link.

Notes

• This template outputs a wikitext link. Any spaces in the URL parameters p1...p9 will garble the link, so change them to %20.
• Similarly, any pipe-separate values in the URL parameters such as a group of pages "title1|title2" must be escaped, so use the {{!}} magic word.

Example

Capitalization, localization, "_" => " ", "Project" => "Wikipedia", ...

api.php?action=query&titles=Project:articleA|article_B [<translate> try in ApiSandbox</translate>]

<translate> Result</translate>

<translate> Post parameters</translate> <translate> Parameter name</translate> <translate> Value</translate> <translate> Default</translate> <translate> Comment</translate> days integer 7 comment <api> <query> <normalized> <n from="Project:articleA" to="Wikipedia:ArticleA" /> <n from="article_B" to="Article B" /> </normalized> <pages> <page ns="4" title="Wikipedia:ArticleA" missing="" /> <page ns="0" title="Article B" missing="" /> </pages> </query> </api>

Editors can experiment in this template’s sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
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