MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=opensearch
(main | opensearch)
- This module requires read rights.
Search the wiki using the OpenSearch protocol.
Parameters:
- search
Search string.
- limit
Maximum number of results to return.
- No more than 100 (100 for bots) allowed.
- Default: 10
- namespace
Namespaces to search.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 500
- Default: 0
- suggest
Do nothing if $wgEnableOpenSearchSuggest is false.
- redirects
How to handle redirects:
- return
- Return the redirect itself.
- resolve
- Return the target page. May return fewer than limit results.
For historical reasons, the default is "return" for format=json and "resolve" for other formats.
- One value: return, resolve
- format
The format of the output.
- One value: json, jsonfm, xml, xmlfm
- Default: json
- warningsaserror
If warnings are raised with format=json, return an API error instead of ignoring them.
Example:
- Find pages beginning with Te.
- api.php?action=opensearch&search=Te