Get Wikipedia user
Get a Wikipedia user's block, groups, edit count, registration date, gender and central ids.
Headers
Get your API keyAPI key (`sfk_...`)
User name on the edition, e.g. `Jimbo Wales` or `ClueBot NG`. A profile URL is not accepted. An IP address has no user record; use the contributions route for its edits.
min 1 chars · max 255 chars
Wikimedia edition code, e.g. `en`, `de`, `ja`, `simple` or `zh-min-nan`. Default: `en`.
Endpoint-specific response payload.
Whether the entity, page or data set exists. A missing entity is `not_found`; an existing entity with no rows is `found` with `empty: true`.
one of: found, not_found
Edition code.
The user when found; otherwise null.
User id.
User name.
Edits.
≥ 0
When the account registered.
Groups the user belongs to.
Group membership with expiry.
Group name.
When it expires.
Gender the user set.
CentralAuth and local ids.
Block id, when blocked.
Why the user is blocked.
When the block expires.
Who blocked the user.
Id of the blocker.
Whether the block is partial.
Metadata describing the request and billing outcome.
Unique request identifier for tracing this API call.
min 1 chars
Credits charged for this request.
≥ 0
Public API version that served the response.
one of: v1
Code example
curl "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/wikipedia/users/Jimbo%20Wales" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Responses
Get Wikipedia user