MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
list=backlinks (bl)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: MediaWiki
- License: GPL-2.0+
Find all pages that link to the given page.
- bltitle
Title to search. Cannot be used together with blpageid.
- blpageid
Page ID to search. Cannot be used together with bltitle.
- Type: integer
- blcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- blnamespace
The namespace to enumerate.
- Values (separate with |): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 460, 461, 2300, 2301, 2302, 2303, 102, 103, 108, 109, 710, 711, 420, 421, 106, 107, 2600, 1198, 1199, 104, 105
- bldir
The direction in which to list.
- One of the following values: ascending, descending
- Default: ascending
- blfilterredir
How to filter for redirects. If set to nonredirects when blredirect is enabled, this is only applied to the second level.
- One of the following values: all, redirects, nonredirects
- Default: all
- bllimit
How many total pages to return. If blredirect is enabled, the limit applies to each level separately (which means up to 2 * bllimit results may be returned).
- No more than 500 (5,000 for bots) allowed.
- Type: integer or max
- Default: 10
- blredirect
If linking page is a redirect, find all pages that link to that redirect as well. Maximum limit is halved.
- Type: boolean (details)
- Show links to Main page.
- api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Main%20Page
- Get information about pages linking to Main page.
- api.php?action=query&generator=backlinks&gbltitle=Main%20Page&prop=info