Template:APIQuery categorymembers
 | Use the MediaWiki web service API interactive GUI for this query in the API Sandbox. Refer to the Categorymembers API documentation for further details on usage. |
Usage
- Intended use
- Place this on a category page to generate a link to call the Wikipedia API to generate a list of pages in the category, limited to 500 results.
- Other uses
- Use this on any page to see the number of items in a category of the same name. This is potentially useful on article talk pages which have a category with an identical name.
- Use this with the
|CATPAGE=parameter to generate a link for a specific category.
- Use this at Special:ExpandTemplates. Put the category name in the
Context title, for Template:APIQuery categorymembers, etc.:line and {{APIQuery categorymembers}} with the appropriate parameters in theInput wikitext:line.
- Use this multiple times with different parameters, to generate a list or table of links.
Parameters
Note: Most of these are named after the parameters in the URL. Not all URL parameters are supported.
|CATPAGE=- overrides the {{PAGENAME}} magic word.|cmprop=- default is|cmprop=title. To add timestamps, use|cmprop=title{{!}}timestamp.|cmnamespace=- default is blank. To filter the results by namespace provide the number of the namespace, e.g. 0 (article), 1 (talk), etc. A full list is at Wikipedia:Namespace.|format=- Default is xml. Other formats supported by the query API are supported.|cmsort=- Default is no sorting. use|cmsort=timestampto sort by time. See cmprop above.|cmdir=- Sorting direction, default is whatever the underlying API default is.|cmsort=descor|cmsort=asc.
- Example usage
- {{APIQuery categorymembers|cmnamespace=1}}
- generates a URL that will list articles in a category
- {{APIQuery categorymembers|cmnamespace=4|cmsort=timestamp|cmdir=desc|cmprop=title{{!}}timestamp}}
- generates a URL that will list the user talk pages in a category, sorted by date, descending, with dates
- {{APIQuery categorymembers|format=json}}
- generates a URL that will generate JSON-formatted output
- {{APIQuery categorymembers|cmnamespace=0|CATPAGE=Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded}}
Technical details
This template generates a "plain link" URL whose text is the namespace if the |csnamespace= parameter is used.
//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category%3A{{{CATPAGE|{{PAGENAMEE}}}}}&cmprop={{{cmprop|title}}}&cmlimit=500&cmnamespace={{{cmnamespace|}}}&format={{{format|xml}}}{{#if: {{{cmsort|}}}|&cmsort={{{cmsort}}}}}{{#if: {{{cmdir|}}}|&cmdir={{{cmdir}}}
Related templates
- Template:APIQuery categorymembers/row - creates a single row. Example:
- User, (recent), User talk, (recent)
- This example lists
User:andUser talk:pages in Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded
- Template:APIQuery categorymembers/table - Table of all namespaces, using Template:APIQuery categorymembers/row
See also
- Special:TrackingCategories - a list of Wikipedia maintenance categories. This template may be useful in some of these categories.
- mw:API:Categorymembers API details (on MediaWiki)
- Help:Searching#incategory: Using the search box to find pages in a category, can be combined with other search features like namespace selection