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prop=deletedrevisions (drv)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
Get deleted revision information.
May be used in several ways:
- Get deleted revisions for a set of pages, by setting titles or pageids. Ordered by title and timestamp.
- Get data about a set of deleted revisions by setting their IDs with revids. Ordered by revision ID.
- drvprop
Which properties to get for each revision:
- ids
- The ID of the revision.
- flags
- Revision flags (minor).
- timestamp
- The timestamp of the revision.
- user
- User that made the revision.
- userid
- User ID of the revision creator.
- size
- Length (bytes) of the revision.
- sha1
- SHA-1 (base 16) of the revision.
- contentmodel
- Content model ID of the revision.
- comment
- Comment by the user for the revision.
- parsedcomment
- Parsed comment by the user for the revision.
- content
- Text of the revision.
- tags
- Tags for the revision.
- Values (separate with |): ids, flags, timestamp, user, userid, size, sha1, contentmodel, comment, parsedcomment, content, tags
- Default: ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user
- drvlimit
Limit how many revisions will be returned.
- No more than 500 (5.000 for bots) allowed.
- drvexpandtemplates
Expand templates in revision content (requires drvprop=content).
- drvgeneratexml
Generate XML parse tree for revision content (requires drvprop=content).
- drvparse
Parse revision content (requires drvprop=content). For performance reasons, if this option is used, drvlimit is enforced to 1.
- drvsection
Only retrieve the content of this section number.
- drvdiffto
Revision ID to diff each revision to. Use prev, next and cur for the previous, next and current revision respectively.
- drvdifftotext
Text to diff each revision to. Only diffs a limited number of revisions. Overrides drvdiffto. If drvsection is set, only that section will be diffed against this text
- drvcontentformat
Serialization format used for drvdifftotext and expected for output of content.
- One value: text/x-wiki, text/javascript, application/json, text/css, text/plain
- drvstart
The timestamp to start enumerating from. Ignored when processing a list of revision IDs.
- drvend
The timestamp to stop enumerating at. Ignored when processing a list of revision IDs.
- drvdir
In which direction to enumerate:
- newer
- List oldest first. Note: drvstart has to be before drvend.
- older
- List newest first (default). Note: drvstart has to be later than drvend.
- One value: newer, older
- Default: older
- drvtag
Only list revisions tagged with this tag.
- drvuser
Only list revisions by this user.
- drvexcludeuser
Don't list revisions by this user.
- drvcontinue
When more results are available, use this to continue.
- List the deleted revisions of the pages Main Page and Talk:Main Page, with content.
- api.php?action=query&prop=deletedrevisions&titles=Main%20Page|Talk:Main%20Page&drvprop=user|comment|content
- List the information for deleted revision 123456.
- api.php?action=query&prop=deletedrevisions&revids=123456