API end‐points

MWoffliner supports the following API end-points to retrieve HTML:

• Wikimedia only:

  • WikimediaDesktop

    • Description: Standard Wikimedia API to retrieve article HTML
    • Screen: Desktop
    • URL: for example https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Foobar

  • WikimediaMobile

    • Description: Wikimedia API to retrieve article HTML for Wikipedia mobile apps
    • Screen: Mobile
    • URL: for example https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Foobar

• MediaWiki:

  • VisualEditor

    • Description: Mediawiki API to provide HTML for the Visual Editor (extension)
    • Screen: Desktop
    • URL: for example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=visualeditor&mobileformat=html&format=json&paction=parse&formatversion=2&page=Foobar

  • RestApi

    • Description: "New" API to retrieve HTML, providing HTML generated by PHP Parsoid
    • Screen: Desktop
    • URL: for example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/Foobar/html

  • ActionParse

    • Desription: Old API to retrieve HTML, newly providing HTML generated by PHP Parsoid
    • Screen: Desktop
    • URL: for example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&prop=text|modules|jsconfigvars|headhtml&parsoid=1&formatversion=2&page=Foobar