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list=search (sr)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Perform a full text search.
- srsearch
Search for page titles or content matching this value. You can use the search string to invoke special search features, depending on what the wiki's search backend implements.
- This parameter is required.
- srnamespace
Search only within these namespaces.
- 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
- srlimit
How many total pages to return.
- Type: integer or max
- The value must be between 1 and 500.
- Default: 10
- sroffset
When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.
- Type: integer
- The value must be no less than 0.
- Default: 0
- srwhat
Which type of search to perform.
- One of the following values: nearmatch, text, title
- srinfo
Which metadata to return.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): rewrittenquery, suggestion, totalhits
- Default: totalhits|suggestion|rewrittenquery
- srprop
Which properties to return:
- size
- Adds the size of the page in bytes.
- wordcount
- Adds the word count of the page.
- timestamp
- Adds the timestamp of when the page was last edited.
- snippet
- Adds a snippet of the page, with query term highlighting markup.
- titlesnippet
- Adds the page title, with query term highlighting markup.
- redirecttitle
- Adds the title of the matching redirect.
- redirectsnippet
- Adds the title of the matching redirect, with query term highlighting markup.
- sectiontitle
- Adds the title of the matching section.
- sectionsnippet
- Adds the title of the matching section, with query term highlighting markup.
- isfilematch
- Adds a boolean indicating if the search matched file content.
- categorysnippet
- Adds the matching category name, with query term highlighting markup.
- score
- Deprecated. Ignored.
- hasrelated
- Deprecated. Ignored.
- extensiondata
- Adds extra data generated by extensions.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): categorysnippet, extensiondata, isfilematch, redirectsnippet, redirecttitle, sectionsnippet, sectiontitle, size, snippet, timestamp, titlesnippet, wordcount, hasrelated, score
- Default: size|wordcount|timestamp|snippet
- srinterwiki
Include interwiki results in the search, if available.
- Type: boolean (details)
- srenablerewrites
Enable internal query rewriting. Some search backends can rewrite the query into another which is thought to provide better results, for instance by correcting spelling errors.
- Type: boolean (details)
- srsort
Set the sort order of returned results.
- One of the following values: relevance
- Default: relevance
- Search for meaning.
- api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=meaning [open in sandbox]
- Search texts for meaning.
- api.php?action=query&list=search&srwhat=text&srsearch=meaning [open in sandbox]
- Get page info about the pages returned for a search for meaning.
- api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=meaning&prop=info [open in sandbox]