Final Reminder: Page content REST API rerouting - Wikitech-l

8 Jan 2025


      Hi there,
This is a final reminder for bot-operators and tool-maintainers that
starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content
endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints.
The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered
HTML content. Updated rerouting behavior is also available on the test wiki
for any final testing that you would like to perform prior to the rollout.
Although we intend for this change to be backwards compatible, non-breaking
and therefore non-impacting, we encourage you to test and raise any final
compatibility issues directly on the outstanding ticket in phabricator
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374683, or to me (hcoplin@wikimedia.org)
directly.
The specific endpoints that will be rerouted are listed below. More
information about this change https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374683
and the RESTbase Sunsetting project
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/restbase_sunsetting/ can also be
found in phabricator.
*Page & revision metadata endpoints: *
- *GET* <domain>/api/rest_v1/page/title/{title}
   - Example: https://test.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/title/Earth
- *GET* <domain>/api/rest_v1/page/title/{title}/{revision}
   - Example: https://test.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/title/Earth/604704
*Rendered HTML endpoints: *
- *GET* <domain>/api/rest_v1/page/html/{title}
   - Example: https://test.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Earth
- *GET* <domain>/api/rest_v1/page/html/{title}/{revision}
   - Example: https://test.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Earth/604704
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to
reach out via email or through phabricator.
Thanks,
Halley
*Halley Coplin* (she/her)
Sr. Product Manager, MediaWiki Interfaces
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/