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This is an auto-generated MediaWiki Action API documentation page.
action=opensearch
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Search the wiki using the OpenSearch protocol.
- search
Search string.
- This parameter is required.
- namespace
Namespaces to search. Ignored if search begins with a valid namespace prefix.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 132, 133, 501
- To specify all values, use *.
- Default: 0
- limit
Maximum number of results to return.
- Type: integer or max
- The value must be between 1 and 500.
- Default: 10
- suggest
- Deprecated.
No longer used.
- Type: boolean (details)
- 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 of the following values: resolve, return
- format
The format of the output.
- One of the following values: json, jsonfm, xml, xmlfm
- Default: json
- warningsaserror
If warnings are raised with format=json, return an API error instead of ignoring them.
- Type: boolean (details)
- Find pages beginning with Te.
- api.php?action=opensearch&search=Te [open in sandbox]