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<section id="mediawiki-engine">
<span id="id1"></span><h1>MediaWiki Engine<a class="headerlink" href="#mediawiki-engine" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#configuration" id="id2">Configuration</a></p></li>
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<p id="module-searx.engines.mediawiki">The MediaWiki engine is a <em>generic</em> engine to <strong>query</strong> Wikimedia wikis by
the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page">MediaWiki Action API</a>. For a <a class="reference external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query">query action</a> all Wikimedia wikis have
endpoints that follow this pattern:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>https://{base_url}/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&format=json
</pre></div>
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<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>In its actual state, this engine is implemented to parse JSON result
(<a class="reference external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=json">format=json</a>) from a search query (<a class="reference external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bsearch">list=search</a>). If you need other
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">action</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">list</span></code> types ask SearXNG developers to extend the
implementation according to your needs.</p>
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<section id="configuration">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2" role="doc-backlink">Configuration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Request:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.base_url" title="searx.engines.mediawiki.base_url"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">base_url</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.search_type" title="searx.engines.mediawiki.search_type"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">search_type</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.srenablerewrites" title="searx.engines.mediawiki.srenablerewrites"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">srenablerewrites</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.srsort" title="searx.engines.mediawiki.srsort"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">srsort</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.srprop" title="searx.engines.mediawiki.srprop"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">srprop</span></code></a></p></li>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" role="doc-backlink">Implementations</a><a class="headerlink" href="#implementations" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.mediawiki.search_type">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.mediawiki.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">search_type</span></span><em class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.13)"><span class="pre">str</span></a></em><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'nearmatch'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.search_type" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Which type of search to perform. One of the following values: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nearmatch</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">text</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">title</span></code>.</p>
<p>See <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">srwhat</span></code> argument in <a class="reference external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bsearch">list=search</a> documentation.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.mediawiki.srenablerewrites">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.mediawiki.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">srenablerewrites</span></span><em class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#bool" title="(in Python v3.13)"><span class="pre">bool</span></a></em><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">True</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.srenablerewrites" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Enable internal query rewriting (Type: boolean). Some search backends can
rewrite the query into another which is thought to provide better results, for
instance by correcting spelling errors.</p>
<p>See <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">srenablerewrites</span></code> argument in <a class="reference external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bsearch">list=search</a> documentation.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.mediawiki.srsort">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.mediawiki.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">srsort</span></span><em class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.13)"><span class="pre">str</span></a></em><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'relevance'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.srsort" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Set the sort order of returned results. One of the following values:
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">create_timestamp_asc</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">create_timestamp_desc</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">incoming_links_asc</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">incoming_links_desc</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">just_match</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">last_edit_asc</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">last_edit_desc</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">none</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">random</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">relevance</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">user_random</span></code>.</p>
<p>See <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">srenablerewrites</span></code> argument in <a class="reference external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bsearch">list=search</a> documentation.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.mediawiki.srprop">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.mediawiki.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">srprop</span></span><em class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.13)"><span class="pre">str</span></a></em><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'sectiontitle|snippet|timestamp|categorysnippet'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.srprop" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Which properties to return.</p>
<p>See <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">srprop</span></code> argument in <a class="reference external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bsearch">list=search</a> documentation.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.mediawiki.base_url">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.mediawiki.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">base_url</span></span><em class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.13)"><span class="pre">str</span></a></em><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'https://{language}.wikipedia.org/'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.base_url" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Base URL of the Wikimedia wiki.</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">{language}</span></code>:</dt><dd><p>ISO 639-1 language code (en, de, fr ..) of the search language.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.mediawiki.api_path">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.mediawiki.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">api_path</span></span><em class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.13)"><span class="pre">str</span></a></em><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'w/api.php'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.api_path" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The path the PHP api is listening on.</p>
<p>The default path should work fine usually.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.mediawiki.timestamp_format">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.mediawiki.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">timestamp_format</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.mediawiki.timestamp_format" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The longhand version of MediaWiki time strings.</p>
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