API:Langbacklinks
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≥ 1.18
GET request to find all pages that link to the given language link.
API documentation
[edit ] The following documentation is the output of Special: ApiHelp/ query+langbacklinks, automatically generated by the pre-release version of MediaWiki that is running on this site (MediaWiki.org).
list=langbacklinks (lbl)
- 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 language link.
Can be used to find all links with a language code, or all links to a title (with a given language). Using neither parameter is effectively "all language links".
Note that this may not consider language links added by extensions.
Specific parameters:
Other general parameters are available.
- lbllang
Language for the language link.
- lbltitle
Language link to search for. Must be used with lbllang.
- lblcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.
- lbllimit
How many total pages to return.
- Type: integer or max
- The value must be between 1 and 500.
- Default: 10
- lblprop
Which properties to get:
- lllang
- Adds the language code of the language link.
- lltitle
- Adds the title of the language link.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): lllang, lltitle
- Default: (empty)
- lbldir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
Examples:
- Get pages linking to fr:Test.
- api.php?action=query&list=langbacklinks&lbltitle=Test&lbllang=fr [open in sandbox]
- Get information about pages linking to fr:Test.
- api.php?action=query&generator=langbacklinks&glbltitle=Test&glbllang=fr&prop=info [open in sandbox]
Example
[edit ]GET request
[edit ]Get pages linking to a given language link.
Response
[edit ]{ "batchcomplete":"", "query":{ "langbacklinks":[] } }
Sample code
[edit ]Python
[edit ]#!/usr/bin/python3 """ langbacklinks.py MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Langbacklinks` module: Get pages linking to a given language link MIT License """ importrequests S = requests.Session() URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php" PARAMS = { "action": "query", "list": "langbacklinks", "lbltitle": "Test", "lbllang": "fr", "format": "json" } R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS) DATA = R.json() print(DATA)
PHP
[edit ]<?php /* langbacklinks.php MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Langbacklinks` module: Get pages linking to a given language link MIT License */ $endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; $params = [ "action" => "query", "list" => "langbacklinks", "lbltitle" => "Test", "lbllang" => "fr", "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 ]/* langbacklinks.js MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Langbacklinks` module: Get pages linking to a given language link MIT License */ varurl="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; varparams={ action:"query", list:"langbacklinks", lbltitle:"Test", lbllang:"fr", 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 ]/* langbacklinks.js MediaWiki API Demos Demo of `Langbacklinks` module: Get pages linking to a given language link MIT License */ varparams={ action:'query', list:'langbacklinks', lbltitle:'Test', lbllang:'fr', format:'json' }, api=newmw.Api(); api.get(params).done(function(data){ console.log(data); });
Possible errors
[edit ]Code | Info |
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missingparam | The lang parameter must be set. |
Parameter history
[edit ]- v1.20: Introduced
dir
Additional notes
[edit ]- This module can be used to find all pages that link to the given language link. It finds all links using a language code, or all links to a given title (with a given language). Using neither parameter is effectively
All Language Links
.
See also
[edit ]- API:Links - Returns all links from the given pages.
- API:Langlinks - Gets a list of all language links from the provided pages to other languages.