MediaWiki API help
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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=watch
- This module requires read rights.
- This module requires write rights.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Add or remove pages from the current user's watchlist.
- title
- Deprecated.
The page to (un)watch. Use titles instead.
- unwatch
If set the page will be unwatched rather than watched.
- Type: boolean (details)
- continue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- titles
A list of titles to work on.
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- pageids
A list of page IDs to work on.
- Type: list of integers
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- revids
A list of revision IDs to work on.
- Type: list of integers
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- generator
Get the list of pages to work on by executing the specified query module.
Note: Generator parameter names must be prefixed with a "g", see examples.
- One of the following values: allcategories, alldeletedrevisions, allfileusages, allimages, alllinks, allpages, allredirects, allrevisions, alltransclusions, backlinks, categories, categorymembers, deletedrevisions, duplicatefiles, embeddedin, exturlusage, fileusage, images, imageusage, iwbacklinks, langbacklinks, links, linkshere, pageswithprop, prefixsearch, protectedtitles, querypage, random, recentchanges, redirects, revisions, search, templates, transcludedin, watchlist, watchlistraw
- redirects
Automatically resolve redirects in titles, pageids, and revids, and in pages returned by generator.
- Type: boolean (details)
- converttitles
Convert titles to other variants if necessary. Only works if the wiki's content language supports variant conversion. Languages that support variant conversion include gan, iu, kk, ku, shi, sr, tg, uz, zh.
- Type: boolean (details)
- token
A "watch" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens
- This parameter is required.
- Watch the page Main Page.
- api.php?action=watch&titles=Main_Page&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Unwatch the page Main Page.
- api.php?action=watch&titles=Main_Page&unwatch=&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Watch the first few pages in the main namespace.
- api.php?action=watch&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]