MediaWiki Action API

The MediaWiki Action API provides batch entity retrieval, editing, and search for Wikidata via wbgetentities, wbsearchentities, wbeditentity, and other actions. Supports up to 50 entities per request. Accessible at wikidata.org/w/api.php.

API entry from apis.yml

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aid: wikidata:mediawiki-action-api
name: MediaWiki Action API
description: The MediaWiki Action API provides batch entity retrieval, editing, and search for Wikidata
  via wbgetentities, wbsearchentities, wbeditentity, and other actions. Supports up to 50 entities per
  request. Accessible at wikidata.org/w/api.php.
humanURL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API
baseURL: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php
tags:
- MediaWiki
- Batch Operations
- Entity Retrieval
- Search
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API
- type: SDK
  url: https://pypi.org/project/pywikibot/
  title: Pywikibot (Python)
- type: SDK
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikibase-sdk
  title: wikibase-sdk (JavaScript)
- type: SDK
  url: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata_Toolkit
  title: Wikidata Toolkit (Java)