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MediaWiki version:
≥ 1.24
GET request to find all pages that link to the given pages.
API documentation
[edit ] The following documentation is the output of Special:ApiHelp/query+linkshere , automatically generated by the pre-release version of MediaWiki that is running on this site (MediaWiki.org).
prop=linkshere (lh)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Find all pages that link to the given pages.
Specific parameters:
Other general parameters are available.
- lhprop
Which properties to get:
- pageid
- Page ID of each page.
- title
- Title of each page.
- redirect
- Flag if the page is a redirect.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): pageid, redirect, title
- Default: pageid|title|redirect
- lhnamespace
Only include pages in these namespaces.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 90, 91, 92, 93, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 710, 711, 828, 829, 1198, 1199, 2600, 5500, 5501
- To specify all values, use *.
- lhshow
Show only items that meet these criteria:
- redirect
- Only show redirects.
- !redirect
- Only show non-redirects.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): !redirect, redirect
- lhlimit
How many to return.
- Type: integer or max
- The value must be between 1 and 500.
- Default: 10
- lhcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.
Examples:
- Get a list of pages linking to the MediaWiki.
- api.php?action=query&prop=linkshere&titles=MediaWiki [open in sandbox]
- Get information about pages linking to the MediaWiki.
- api.php?action=query&generator=linkshere&titles=MediaWiki&prop=info [open in sandbox]
Example
[edit ]GET request
[edit ]Get a list of pages linking to the Main Page.
Response
[edit ]{ "continue":{ "lhcontinue":"1868", "continue":"||" }, "query":{ "pages":{ "15580374":{ "pageid":15580374, "ns":0, "title":"Main Page", "linkshere":[ { "pageid":354, "ns":1, "title":"Talk:Algeria" }, { "pageid":672, "ns":1, "title":"Talk:Arc de Triomphe" }, ... ] } } } }
Sample code
[edit ]Python
[edit ]#!/usr/bin/python3 """ linkshere.py MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Linkshere` module: Get a list of pages linking to a given page MIT License """ import requests S = requests.Session() URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php" PARAMS = { "action": "query", "titles": "Main Page", "prop": "linkshere", "format": "json" } R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS) DATA = R.json() print(DATA)
PHP
[edit ]<?php /* linkshere.php MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Linkshere` module: Get a list of pages linking to a given page MIT License */ $endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; $params = [ "action" => "query", "titles" => "Main Page", "prop" => "linkshere", "format" => "json" ]; $url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params ); $ch = curl_init( $url ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ); $output = curl_exec( $ch ); curl_close( $ch ); $result = json_decode( $output, true ); var_dump( $result );
JavaScript
[edit ]/* linkshere.js MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Linkshere` module: Get a list of pages linking to a given page MIT License */ varurl="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; varparams={ action:"query", titles:"Main Page", prop:"linkshere", format:"json" }; url=url+"?origin=*"; Object.keys(params).forEach(function(key){url+="&"+key+"="+params[key];}); fetch(url) .then(function(response){returnresponse.json();}) .then(function(response){console.log(response);}) .catch(function(error){console.log(error);});
MediaWiki JS
[edit ]/* linkshere.js MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Linkshere` module: Get a list of pages linking to a given page MIT License */ varparams={ action:'query', titles:'Main Page', prop:'linkshere', format:'json' }, api=newmw.Api(); api.get(params).done(function(data){ console.log(data); });
Possible errors
[edit ]Code | Info |
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show | Incorrect parameter - mutually exclusive values may not be supplied. |
Additional notes
[edit ]- This module can be used as a generator.
See also
[edit ]- API:Links - Returns all links from the given pages.