MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page
prop=linkshere (lh)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Find all pages that link to the given pages.
Specific parameters:
Other general parameters are available.
- lhprop
Which properties to get:
- pageid
- Page ID of each page.
- title
- Title of each page.
- redirect
- Flag if the page is a redirect.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): pageid, redirect, title
- Default: pageid|title|redirect
- lhnamespace
Only include pages in these namespaces.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- To specify all values, use *.
- lhshow
Show only items that meet these criteria:
- redirect
- Only show redirects.
- !redirect
- Only show non-redirects.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): !redirect, redirect
- lhlimit
How many to return.
- Type: integer or max
- The value must be between 1 and 500.
- Default: 10
- lhcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.
Examples:
- Get a list of pages linking to the Main Page.
- api.php?action=query&prop=linkshere&titles=Main%20Page [open in sandbox]
- Get information about pages linking to the Main Page.
- api.php?action=query&generator=linkshere&titles=Main%20Page&prop=info [open in sandbox]
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