Template:REST API Reference sample code (GET)

curl

$ curl "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/some/path"

Python

import requests

url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/some/path'
headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'MediaWiki REST API docs examples/0.1 (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:REST_API)'
}


response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
data = response.json()

print(data)

PHP

<?php

$url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/some/path";


$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MediaWiki REST API docs examples/0.1 (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:REST_API)" );
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

echo($output);
?>

JavaScript

async function doFetch() {
  let url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/some/path";
  let headers = {'Api-User-Agent': 'MediaWiki REST API docs examples/0.1 (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_talk:REST_API)'}
  

  const rsp = await fetch(url, headers);
  const data = await rsp.json();
  return data;
}

async function fetchAsync()
{
  try {
    let result = await doFetch();
    console.log(result);
  } catch( err ) {
    console.error( err.message );
  }
}

fetchAsync();

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