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This is an auto-generated MediaWiki Action API documentation page.
action=paraminfo
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Obtain information about API modules.
- modules
List of module names (values of the action and format parameters, or main). Can specify submodules with a +, or all submodules with +*, or all submodules recursively with +**.
- Separate values with | or alternative.
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
- helpformat
Format of help strings.
- One of the following values: html, none, raw, wikitext
- Default: none
- querymodules
- Deprecated.
List of query module names (value of prop, meta or list parameter). Use modules=query+foo instead of querymodules=foo.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): allcategories, alldeletedrevisions, allfileusages, allimages, alllinks, allmessages, allpages, allredirects, allrevisions, alltransclusions, allusers, authmanagerinfo, backlinks, blocks, categories, categoryinfo, categorymembers, codexicons, contributors, deletedrevisions, deletedrevs, duplicatefiles, embeddedin, extlinks, exturlusage, filearchive, filerepoinfo, fileusage, imageinfo, images, imageusage, info, iwbacklinks, iwlinks, langbacklinks, langlinks, languageinfo, links, linkshere, logevents, mystashedfiles, pagepropnames, pageprops, pageswithprop, prefixsearch, protectedtitles, querypage, random, recentchanges, redirects, revisions, search, siteinfo, stashimageinfo, tags, templates, tokens, trackingcategories, transcludedin, usercontribs, userinfo, users, watchlist, watchlistraw
- Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for clients that are allowed higher limits).
- mainmodule
- Deprecated.
Get information about the main (top-level) module as well. Use modules=main instead.
- pagesetmodule
- Deprecated.
Get information about the pageset module (providing titles= and friends) as well.
- formatmodules
- Deprecated.
List of format module names (value of format parameter). Use modules instead.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): json, jsonfm, none, php, phpfm, rawfm, xml, xmlfm
- Show info for action=parse, format=jsonfm, action=query&list=allpages, and action=query&meta=siteinfo.
- api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=parse|phpfm|query%2Ballpages|query%2Bsiteinfo [open in sandbox]
- Show info for all submodules of action=query.
- api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=query%2B* [open in sandbox]