On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Jason Ji <uberjason@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings!

Hi!

I am a relatively new MediaWiki extension developer,

If you're working on an extension and querying these links on the same wiki on which your extension is installed, you might be better served by using the appropriate PHP methods to fetch this data directly, rather than making a query back into the MediaWiki API.

I know we can use action=query&prop=extlinks to get external links from our wiki page to other (non-wiki) web pages, action=query&prop=links to get internal links from our wiki page out to other wiki pages, and action=query&prop=backlinks to get internal links from other wiki pages into our wiki page.

I expect it's just a typo, but for the benefit of anyone else reading that last should list=backlinks, not prop=backlinks.

However, in the case where a link is external but points to an internal wiki page, I can't find the proper API call. These links seem to be falling through the cracks somehow.

Those may be accessed, along with all other external links, by using action=query&list=exturlusage. You'd specify the appropriate values for euprotocol and euquery to limit the search to the particular link you're interested in.

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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation