MediaWiki API help
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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page
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- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Get the difference between two pages.
A revision number, a page title, a page ID, text, or a relative reference for both "from" and "to" must be passed.
- fromtitle
First title to compare.
- fromid
First page ID to compare.
- Type: integer
- fromrev
First revision to compare.
- Type: integer
- fromslots
Override content of the revision specified by fromtitle, fromid or fromrev.
This parameter specifies the slots that are to be modified. Use fromtext-{slot}, fromcontentmodel-{slot}, and fromcontentformat-{slot} to specify content for each slot.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): main
- fromtext-{slot}
Text of the specified slot. If omitted, the slot is removed from the revision.
- This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of fromslots.
- fromsection-{slot}
When fromtext-{slot} is the content of a single section, this is the section identifier. It will be merged into the revision specified by fromtitle, fromid or fromrev as if for a section edit.
- This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of fromslots.
- fromcontentformat-{slot}
Content serialization format of fromtext-{slot}.
- This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of fromslots.
- One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown
- fromcontentmodel-{slot}
Content model of fromtext-{slot}. If not supplied, it will be guessed based on the other parameters.
- This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of fromslots.
- One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext
- frompst
Do a pre-save transform on fromtext-{slot}.
- Type: boolean (details)
- fromtext
- Deprecated.
Specify fromslots=main and use fromtext-main instead.
- fromcontentformat
- Deprecated.
Specify fromslots=main and use fromcontentformat-main instead.
- One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown
- fromcontentmodel
- Deprecated.
Specify fromslots=main and use fromcontentmodel-main instead.
- One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext
- fromsection
- Deprecated.
Only use the specified section of the specified 'from' content.
- totitle
Second title to compare.
- toid
Second page ID to compare.
- Type: integer
- torev
Second revision to compare.
- Type: integer
- torelative
Use a revision relative to the revision determined from fromtitle, fromid or fromrev. All of the other 'to' options will be ignored.
- One of the following values: cur, next, prev
- toslots
Override content of the revision specified by totitle, toid or torev.
This parameter specifies the slots that are to be modified. Use totext-{slot}, tocontentmodel-{slot}, and tocontentformat-{slot} to specify content for each slot.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): main
- totext-{slot}
Text of the specified slot. If omitted, the slot is removed from the revision.
- This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of toslots.
- tosection-{slot}
When totext-{slot} is the content of a single section, this is the section identifier. It will be merged into the revision specified by totitle, toid or torev as if for a section edit.
- This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of toslots.
- tocontentformat-{slot}
Content serialization format of totext-{slot}.
- This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of toslots.
- One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown
- tocontentmodel-{slot}
Content model of totext-{slot}. If not supplied, it will be guessed based on the other parameters.
- This is a templated parameter. When making the request, {slot} in the parameter's name should be replaced with values of toslots.
- One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext
- topst
Do a pre-save transform on totext.
- Type: boolean (details)
- totext
- Deprecated.
Specify toslots=main and use totext-main instead.
- tocontentformat
- Deprecated.
Specify toslots=main and use tocontentformat-main instead.
- One of the following values: application/json, application/octet-stream, application/unknown, application/x-binary, text/css, text/javascript, text/plain, text/unknown, text/x-wiki, unknown/unknown
- tocontentmodel
- Deprecated.
Specify toslots=main and use tocontentmodel-main instead.
- One of the following values: css, javascript, json, text, unknown, wikitext
- tosection
- Deprecated.
Only use the specified section of the specified 'to' content.
- prop
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- diff
- The diff HTML.
- diffsize
- The size of the diff HTML, in bytes.
- rel
- The revision IDs of the revision previous to 'from' and after 'to', if any.
- ids
- The page and revision IDs of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
- title
- The page titles of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
- user
- The username and ID of the 'from' and 'to' revisions. If the user has been revision deleted, a fromuserhidden or touserhidden property will be returned.
- comment
- The comment on the 'from' and 'to' revisions. If the comment has been revision deleted, a fromcommenthidden or tocommenthidden property will be returned.
- parsedcomment
- The parsed comment on the 'from' and 'to' revisions. If the comment has been revision deleted, a fromcommenthidden or tocommenthidden property will be returned.
- size
- The size of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
- timestamp
- (no description)
- Values (separate with | or alternative): comment, diff, diffsize, ids, parsedcomment, rel, size, timestamp, title, user
- Default: diff|ids|title
- slots
Return individual diffs for these slots, rather than one combined diff for all slots.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): main
- To specify all values, use *.
- Create a diff between revision 1 and 2.
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