API:Purge
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Purge | ||
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Purges the cache of one or more pages This module cannot be used as a Generator . |
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Prefix | none | |
Required rights | purge | |
Post only? | No | |
Generated help | Current | |
Version added |
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Purging pages' caches[edit]
You can purge the cache of one or more pages using action=purge.
Parameters[edit]
titles
: A list of titles. Can not be used together withpageids
orrevids
pageids
: A list of page IDs. Can not be used together withtitles
orrevids
1.20+revids
: A list of revision IDs. Can not be used together withtitles
orpageids
forcelinkupdate
: If set, updates the link tablesforcerecursivelinkupdate
: Like forcelinkupdate, but also do forcelinkupdate on any page that transcludes the current page. This is akin to making an edit to a template. Note that the job queue is used for this operation, so there may be a delay when doing this for pages used a large number of times.generator
: Use a generator to get the list of pages to purgeredirects
: Automatically resolve redirectsconverttitles
: Convert titles to other variants if necessary. Only works if the wiki's content language supports variant conversion. Languages that support variant conversion include gan, iu, kk, ku, shi, sr, tg, uz, zh.continue
: When more results are available, use this to continue.
Examples[edit]
- Purge file with inconsistent external links table on commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=purge&titles=File:Masopust_držíme_18.jpg&forcelinkupdate
- Purging the cache of Main Page, Nonexistent and Talk:
Result |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api>
<purge>
<page ns="0" title="Main Page" purged="" />
<page ns="0" title="Nonexistent" missing="" />
<page title="Talk:" invalid="" />
</purge>
</api>
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Possible errors[edit]
Code | Info |
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cantpurge | Only users with the 'purge' right can purge pages via the API |
The following documentation is the output of Special:ApiHelp/purge, automatically generated by the pre-release version of MediaWiki that is running on this site (MediaWiki.org). |
action=purge
- This module requires read rights.
- This module requires write rights.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Purge the cache for the given titles.
- forcelinkupdate
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Update the links tables.
- Type: boolean (details)
- forcerecursivelinkupdate
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Update the links table, and update the links tables for any page that uses this page as a template.
- Type: boolean (details)
- continue
-
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- titles
-
A list of titles to work on.
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- pageids
-
A list of page IDs to work on.
- Type: list of integers
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- revids
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A list of revision IDs to work on.
- Type: list of integers
- Separate values with | or alternative. Maximum number of values is 50 (500 for bots).
- generator
-
Get the list of pages to work on by executing the specified query module.
Note: Generator parameter names must be prefixed with a "g", see examples.
- allcategories
- Enumerate all categories.
- alldeletedrevisions
- List all deleted revisions by a user or in a namespace.
- allfileusages
- List all file usages, including non-existing.
- allimages
- Enumerate all images sequentially.
- alllinks
- Enumerate all links that point to a given namespace.
- allpages
- Enumerate all pages sequentially in a given namespace.
- allredirects
- List all redirects to a namespace.
- allrevisions
- List all revisions.
- alltransclusions
- List all transclusions (pages embedded using {{x}}), including non-existing.
- backlinks
- Find all pages that link to the given page.
- categories
- List all categories the pages belong to.
- categorymembers
- List all pages in a given category.
- deletedrevisions
- Get deleted revision information.
- duplicatefiles
- List all files that are duplicates of the given files based on hash values.
- embeddedin
- Find all pages that embed (transclude) the given title.
- exturlusage
- Enumerate pages that contain a given URL.
- fileusage
- Find all pages that use the given files.
- images
- Returns all files contained on the given pages.
- imageusage
- Find all pages that use the given image title.
- iwbacklinks
- Find all pages that link to the given interwiki link.
- langbacklinks
- Find all pages that link to the given language link.
- links
- Returns all links from the given pages.
- linkshere
- Find all pages that link to the given pages.
- messagecollection
- Query MessageCollection about translations.
- mostviewed
- Lists the most viewed pages (based on last day's pageview count).
- pageswithprop
- List all pages using a given page property.
- prefixsearch
- Perform a prefix search for page titles.
- protectedtitles
- List all titles protected from creation.
- querypage
- Get a list provided by a QueryPage-based special page.
- random
- Get a set of random pages.
- recentchanges
- Enumerate recent changes.
- redirects
- Returns all redirects to the given pages.
- revisions
- Get revision information.
- search
- Perform a full text search.
- templates
- Returns all pages transcluded on the given pages.
- transcludedin
- Find all pages that transclude the given pages.
- watchlist
- Get recent changes to pages in the current user's watchlist.
- watchlistraw
- Get all pages on the current user's watchlist.
- wblistentityusage
- Returns all pages that use the given entity IDs.
- One of the following values: allcategories, alldeletedrevisions, allfileusages, allimages, alllinks, allpages, allredirects, allrevisions, alltransclusions, backlinks, categories, categorymembers, deletedrevisions, duplicatefiles, embeddedin, exturlusage, fileusage, images, imageusage, iwbacklinks, langbacklinks, links, linkshere, messagecollection, mostviewed, pageswithprop, prefixsearch, protectedtitles, querypage, random, recentchanges, redirects, revisions, search, templates, transcludedin, watchlist, watchlistraw, wblistentityusage
- redirects
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Automatically resolve redirects in titles, pageids, and revids, and in pages returned by generator.
- Type: boolean (details)
- converttitles
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Convert titles to other variants if necessary. Only works if the wiki's content language supports variant conversion. Languages that support variant conversion include en, gan, iu, kk, ku, shi, sr, tg, uz and zh.
- Type: boolean (details)
- Purge the Main Page and the API page.
- api.php?action=purge&titles=Main_Page|API [open in sandbox]
- Purge the first 10 pages in the main namespace.
- api.php?action=purge&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&gaplimit=10 [open in sandbox]