MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
action=compare
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Get the difference between two pages.
A revision number, a page title, a page ID, text, or a relative reference for both "from" and "to" must be passed.
- fromtitle
Ensimmäinen vertailtava otsikko.
- fromid
First page ID to compare.
- Type: integer
- fromrev
First revision to compare.
- Type: integer
- fromtext
Use this text instead of the content of the revision specified by fromtitle, fromid or fromrev.
- frompst
Do a pre-save transform on fromtext.
- Type: boolean (details)
- fromcontentformat
Content serialization format of fromtext.
- One of the following values: text/x-wiki, text/javascript, application/json, text/css, text/plain
- fromcontentmodel
Content model of fromtext. If not supplied, it will be guessed based on the other parameters.
- One of the following values: wikitext, javascript, json, css, text
- totitle
Second title to compare.
- toid
Second page ID to compare.
- Type: integer
- torev
Second revision to compare.
- Type: integer
- torelative
Use a revision relative to the revision determined from fromtitle, fromid or fromrev. All of the other 'to' options will be ignored.
- One of the following values: prev, next, cur
- totext
Use this text instead of the content of the revision specified by totitle, toid or torev.
- topst
Do a pre-save transform on totext.
- Type: boolean (details)
- tocontentformat
Content serialization format of totext.
- One of the following values: text/x-wiki, text/javascript, application/json, text/css, text/plain
- tocontentmodel
Content model of totext. If not supplied, it will be guessed based on the other parameters.
- One of the following values: wikitext, javascript, json, css, text
- prop
Which pieces of information to get.
- diff
- The diff HTML.
- diffsize
- The size of the diff HTML, in bytes.
- rel
- The revision IDs of the revision previous to 'from' and after 'to', if any.
- ids
- The page and revision IDs of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
- title
- The page titles of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
- user
- The user name and ID of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
- comment
- The comment on the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
- parsedcomment
- The parsed comment on the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
- size
- The size of the 'from' and 'to' revisions.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): diff, diffsize, rel, ids, title, user, comment, parsedcomment, size
- Default: diff|ids|title
- Create a diff between revision 1 and 2.
- api.php?action=compare&fromrev=1&torev=2 [open in sandbox]