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action=parse
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Parses content and returns parser output.
See the various prop-modules of action=query to get information from the current version of a page.
There are several ways to specify the text to parse:
- Specify a page or revision, using page, pageid, or oldid.
- Specify content explicitly, using text, title, and contentmodel.
- Specify only a summary to parse. prop should be given an empty value.
- title
Title of page the text belongs to. If omitted, contentmodel must be specified, and API will be used as the title.
- text
Text to parse. Use title or contentmodel to control the content model.
- summary
Summary to parse.
- page
Parse the content of this page. Cannot be used together with text and title.
- pageid
Parse the content of this page. Overrides page.
- Type: integer
- redirects
If page or pageid is set to a redirect, resolve it.
- Type: boolean (details)
- oldid
Parse the content of this revision. Overrides page and pageid.
- Type: integer
- prop
Which pieces of information to get:
- text
- Gives the parsed text of the wikitext.
- langlinks
- Gives the language links in the parsed wikitext.
- categories
- Gives the categories in the parsed wikitext.
- categorieshtml
- Gives the HTML version of the categories.
- links
- Gives the internal links in the parsed wikitext.
- templates
- Gives the templates in the parsed wikitext.
- images
- Gives the images in the parsed wikitext.
- externallinks
- Gives the external links in the parsed wikitext.
- sections
- Gives the sections in the parsed wikitext.
- revid
- Adds the revision ID of the parsed page.
- displaytitle
- Adds the title of the parsed wikitext.
- headitems
- Deprecated. Gives items to put in the
<head>of the page. - headhtml
- Gives parsed
<head>of the page. - modules
- Gives the ResourceLoader modules used on the page. To load, use
mw.loader.using(). Either jsconfigvars or encodedjsconfigvars must be requested jointly with modules. - jsconfigvars
- Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page. To apply, use
mw.config.set(). - encodedjsconfigvars
- Gives the JavaScript configuration variables specific to the page as a JSON string.
- indicators
- Gives the HTML of page status indicators used on the page.
- iwlinks
- Gives interwiki links in the parsed wikitext.
- wikitext
- Gives the original wikitext that was parsed.
- properties
- Gives various properties defined in the parsed wikitext.
- limitreportdata
- Gives the limit report in a structured way. Gives no data, when disablelimitreport is set.
- limitreporthtml
- Gives the HTML version of the limit report. Gives no data, when disablelimitreport is set.
- parsetree
- The XML parse tree of revision content (requires content model
wikitext)
- Values (separate with | or alternative): text, langlinks, categories, categorieshtml, links, templates, images, externallinks, sections, revid, displaytitle, headitems, headhtml, modules, jsconfigvars, encodedjsconfigvars, indicators, iwlinks, wikitext, properties, limitreportdata, limitreporthtml, parsetree
- Default: text|langlinks|categories|links|templates|images|externallinks|sections|revid|displaytitle|iwlinks|properties
- pst
Do a pre-save transform on the input before parsing it. Only valid when used with text.
- Type: boolean (details)
- onlypst
Do a pre-save transform (PST) on the input, but don't parse it. Returns the same wikitext, after a PST has been applied. Only valid when used with text.
- Type: boolean (details)
- effectivelanglinks
Includes language links supplied by extensions (for use with prop=langlinks).
- Type: boolean (details)
- section
Only parse the content of this section number.
When new, parse text and sectiontitle as if adding a new section to the page.
new is allowed only when specifying text.
- sectiontitle
New section title when section is new.
Unlike page editing, this does not fall back to summary when omitted or empty.
- disablepp
- Deprecated.
Use disablelimitreport instead.
- Type: boolean (details)
- disablelimitreport
Omit the limit report ("NewPP limit report") from the parser output.
- Type: boolean (details)
- disableeditsection
Omit edit section links from the parser output.
- Type: boolean (details)
- disabletidy
Do not run HTML cleanup (e.g. tidy) on the parser output.
- Type: boolean (details)
- generatexml
- Deprecated.
Generate XML parse tree (requires content model
wikitext; replaced by prop=parsetree).- Type: boolean (details)
- preview
Parse in preview mode.
- Type: boolean (details)
- sectionpreview
Parse in section preview mode (enables preview mode too).
- Type: boolean (details)
- disabletoc
Omit table of contents in output.
- Type: boolean (details)
- contentformat
Content serialization format used for the input text. Only valid when used with text.
- One of the following values: text/x-wiki, text/javascript, application/json, text/css, text/plain
- contentmodel
Content model of the input text. If omitted, title must be specified, and default will be the model of the specified title. Only valid when used with text.
- One of the following values: wikitext, javascript, json, css, text, Scribunto
- Parse a page.
- api.php?action=parse&page=Project:Sandbox [open in sandbox]
- Parse wikitext.
- api.php?action=parse&text={{Project:Sandbox}}&contentmodel=wikitext [open in sandbox]
- Parse wikitext, specifying the page title.
- api.php?action=parse&text={{PAGENAME}}&title=Test [open in sandbox]
- Parse a summary.
- api.php?action=parse&summary=Some+[[link]]&prop= [open in sandbox]