API:Siteinfo/Sample code 1

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
    general_site_info.py

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Siteinfo` module: Obtain general site info.

    MIT License
"""

import requests

S = requests.Session()

URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"

PARAMS = {
    "action": "query",
    "meta": "siteinfo",
    "formatversion": "2",
    "format": "json"
}

R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS)
DATA = R.json()

print(DATA)

PHP

<?php

/*
    general_site_info.php

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Siteinfo` module: Obtain general site info.

    MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
    "action" => "query",
    "meta" => "siteinfo",
    "formatversion" => "2",
    "format" => "json"
];

$url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params );

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

echo( $output );

JavaScript

/*
    general_site_info.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Siteinfo` module: Obtain general site info.

    MIT License
*/

var url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"; 

var params = {
    action: "query",
    meta: "siteinfo",
    formatversion: "2",
    format: "json"
};
request.get({ url: url, qs: params }, function(error, res, body) {
    if (error) {
        return;
    }
    console.log(body);
});

MediaWiki JS

/*
	general_site_info.js

    MediaWiki API Demos
    Demo of `Siteinfo` module: Obtain general site info.

    MIT License
*/

var params = {
    action: "query",
    meta: "siteinfo",
    formatversion: "2",
    format: "json"
},
api = new mw.Api();

api.get( params ).done( function ( data ) {
console.log( data );
} );