API:Client code

This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation.

Client libraries contain code that developers can use to help with common and basic tasks, so that they don't have to write the code from scratch when their projects interact with an API.

This page contains a set of lists, by language, of several recommended client libraries that can be used with the MediaWiki Action API. The recommendations are based on evaluations using API:Client code/Gold standard.

New and/or unevaluated libraries can be added to API:Client_code/All.

API client libraries

Last activity refers to the last commit in the repository.
Dates and version numbers were updated on 2019-06-19.

Awk

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
BotWikiAwk	Framework and libraries for creating bots. Includes example bots.			27 March 2019
Wikiget	Awk CLI program to interface with MediaWiki API for read/write including OAuth.			8 June 2019

Bash

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
bash-mediawiki	An example with Curl that allows easy editing/uploading of a wiki through the MediaWiki API.			17 August 2021

C++

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
libmediawiki	A library that allows easy editing of a wiki through the MediaWiki API.			9 September 2017

Common Lisp

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
cl-mediawiki	A Common Lisp wrapper for the MediaWiki API.			10 November 2016

Elixir

Name	Description	Last release	Release Date	Last activity
mediawiki_client_ex	Adapter for the Action API, EventStreams, and ORES. (Documentation)	0.4.1	20 December 2022	21 December 2022

Go

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
go-mediawiki	Go wrapper for the MediaWiki API.	v0.1	4 November 2013	8 February 2017
go-mwclient	Wrapper for the MediaWiki API (supports maxlag, query continuations, OAuth).	v1.2.0	3 June 2020	3 June 2020

Haskell

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
haskell mediawiki	A complete Haskell binding to the MediaWiki API letting you programmatically access (read and write) MediaWiki content.	0.2.6	20 November 2013	20 November 2013

Java

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
JavaWikiBotFramework	A library to retrieve data from and maintain MediaWiki-based wikis such as Wikipedia.	4.0.0	13 September 2016	15 February 2019
jwiki	A library for effortlessly interacting with Wikipedia/MediaWiki.	1.8.0	14 April 2020	6 May 2020
Bliki Engine	Can convert wikicode to HTML, DocBook or PDF. Has a helper library for API calls.			27 April 2019

More Java libraries available at API:Client_code/All#Java.

JavaScript

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
mwn (Node.js)	Mwn is a modern and feature-rich API client with support for both JavaScript and TypeScript. Has classes for conveniently working with page titles and parsing wikitext. Supports both OAuth and BotPasswords.	v2.0.2	30 September 2023	6 April 2024
mwbot (Node.js)	MWBot uses the Promise pattern and other ES6 methodologies, optimised for creating bots that make edits. Works with any MediaWiki site.	v2.0.0	30 October 2017	1 February 2021
nodemw (Node.js)	A generic MediaWiki API client for Node.js.	v0.16.0	16 September 2018	29 October 2021
wikiapi (Node.js)	A simple way to access MediaWiki API via JavaScript with simple wikitext parser.	v1.16.0	1 October 2020	22 October 2021
mediawiki.api (browser)	Generic MediaWiki API client for client-side JavaScript. It ships with MediaWiki core as a ResourceLoader module bundle. It abstracts some high-level concepts and provides a generic client for other queries.	Maintained as part of MediaWiki.

In-wiki JavaScript clients:

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
mwapilib2	A layer overtop of the requests. Make JS gadgets easier.			25 September 2016
JsMwApi	A convenience wrapper around raw requests, with some helpers for editing and parsing.			11 June 2014

More JavaScript libraries available at API:Client_code/All#JavaScript.

Lua

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
dtMediaWiki	Makes query (tokens, userinfo), clientlogin, upload, and logout calls. It handles HTTPS requests and cookies and can be used to upload files to Wikimedia Commons.			20 September 2018

MATLAB

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
MatWiki	A preliminary (as of Feb 2019) MATLAB R2016b(9.1.x) client supporting just bot-logins & semantic #ask queries.	v1.0.0	19 February 2019	19 February 2019

.NET

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
WikiFunctions	Library with classes for editing and getting lists of pages via the API, used by AutoWikiBrowser.	6.2.1.0	8 June 2021	5 October 2023
LinqToWiki	Strongly typed library for accessing most of MediaWiki API, with support for autocompletion.	1.5.0	7 May 2015	7 May 2015
WikiClientLibrary	A .NET Standard & asynchronous MediaWiki API client library for wiki sites. The library also supports Flow/Wikibase/Wikia-specific API.	v0.7.5	31 January 2021	5 November 2022

More .NET libraries available at API:Client code/All#.NET.

OCaml

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
ocaml-mediawiki	A high-level binding for the MediaWiki API written in OCaml.			29 August 2012

Perl

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
MediaWiki::Bot	A higher-level Perl module with read and write functions. Easily extensible with plugins, for example to provide administrator functions (Evaluation). source code on GitHub.	5.006003	7 July 2016	7 July 2016
MediaWiki::API	A Perl module for interfacing with the MediaWiki API with file upload/download and editing support. (Debian package). (Evaluation).	0.41	13 November 2015	13 November 2015

PHP

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
mediawiki-api-base	Library for basic MediaWiki api use.	2.4.0	2 November 2017	9 July 2019
mediawiki-api	A simple library for interacting with the MediaWiki API.	0.7.2	20 November 2017	6 April 2019
wikibase-api	Library for querying Wikidata.	0.7	4 July 2016	17 August 2018

More PHP libraries available at API:Client code/All#PHP.

Python

Name	Type hints	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
Pywikibotdocs	Yes	A collection of Python scripts and a powerful library for bot writing. (PyPI) (Git repository) (#pywikibot^connect) (Evaluation).	10.0.0	1 March 2025	March 2025
pwiki docs	Yes	A Python library for developing bots/tools, focused on ease of use and simplicity.	1.1.1	15 October 2021	28 May 2022
mwclient docs	No	Python library that makes most of the API functions accessible. (PyPI) (Evaluation).	0.10.1	28 May 2020	26 September 2021
wiki-scripts docs	No	Framework for writing bots, maintenance scripts or performing data analysis.	1.2	31 December 2017	13 June 2019

Simple Python wrappers for no-abstraction interfaces to the MediaWiki API and basic session handling:

Name	Type hints	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
pywikiapi	No	A minimalistic library that handles some of the core MediaWiki API complexities like handling continuations, login, errors, and warnings, but does not impose any additional abstraction layers.	1.3.2	13 April 2019	13 April 2019
Wikipedia docs	No	A Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia.	v1.1	24 December 2013	11 November 2016
wikitools	No	Provides several layers of abstraction around the API. Doesn't support Python 3.	0.41	7 June 2015	28 August 2016

More Python libraries available at API:Client code/All#Python.

R

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
WikipediR	A wrapper for the MediaWiki API, aimed particularly at the Wikimedia 'production' wikis, such as Wikipedia. Can be used to retrieve page text, information about users or the history of pages, and elements of the category tree.	1.5.0	15 February 2017	15 February 2017

Ruby

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
MediaWiki::Butt	Stable and powerful Ruby framework for the API. (Evaluation)	3.0.0	19 October 2017	3 January 2019
wikipedia-client	Ruby framework using the API.	v1.10.0	5 March 2018	5 March 2018
MediaWiki Ruby API	Ruby API client library in active development by Wikimedia Foundation Release Engineering.	0.71	31 January 2017	5 December 2017

More Ruby libraries available at API:Client code/All#Ruby.

Rust

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
Wikibase RS	Rust library to talk to the Wikibase API and serialize data into Rust data structures.	0.37	19 June 2019	19 June 2019
mediawiki_rust	A MediaWiki client library in Rust.			16 November 2020
mwbot-rs	A framework for writing bots on MediaWiki	0.4.3	15 October 2022	5 November 2022
wiki	Library for interacting with MediaWiki APIs	0.0.3	10 August 2022	5 November 2022

More Rust libraries available at API:Client code/All#Rust.

Scala

Name	Description	Last release	Release date	Last activity
scalawiki	MediaWiki client in Scala.	0.6.3	17 September 2020	28 September 2019
dbpedia extraction framework	Data extraction framework for DBpedia with support Wiki source retrieved via MediaWiki API.	DBpedia_2015-10	25 July 2016	13 April 2019
scmw	Simple MediaWiki API wrapper for needs of Commonist image upload tool.	v-0.140.0	22 December 2017	22 December 2017