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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page

list=prefixsearch (ps)

(main | query | prefixsearch)

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Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Perform a prefix search for page titles.

Despite the similarity in names, this module is not intended to be equivalent to Special:PrefixIndex; for that, see action=query&list=allpages with the apprefix parameter. The purpose of this module is similar to action=opensearch: to take user input and provide the best-matching titles. Depending on the search engine backend, this might include typo correction, redirect avoidance, or other heuristics.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Prefixsearch

Specific parameters:

Other general parameters are available.

pssearch

Search string.

This parameter is required.

psnamespace

Namespaces to search. Ignored if pssearch begins with a valid namespace prefix.

Values (separate with | or alternative): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 102, 103, 106, 107, 108, 109, 112, 113, 114, 115, 274, 275, 828, 829, 2300, 2301, 2302, 2303

To specify all values, use *.

Default: 0

pslimit

Maximum number of results to return.

Type: integer or max

The value must be between 1 and 500.

Default: 10

psoffset

When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.

Type: integer

The value must be no less than 0.

Default: 0

psprofile

Search profile to use.

strict: Strict profile with few punctuation characters removed but diacritics and stress marks are kept.
normal: Few punctuation characters, some diacritics and stopwords removed.
fuzzy: Similar to normal with typo correction (two typos supported).
fast-fuzzy: Experimental fuzzy profile (may be removed at any time)
classic: Classic prefix, few punctuation characters and some diacritics removed.
engine_autoselect: Let the search engine decide on the best profile to use.

One of the following values: classic, engine_autoselect, fast-fuzzy, fuzzy, normal, strict

Default: engine_autoselect

Example:

Search for page titles beginning with meaning.: api.php?action=query&list=prefixsearch&pssearch=meaning [open in sandbox]