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list=prefixsearch (ps)
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- 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.
- 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, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 274, 275, 710, 711, 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
- 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.
- normal-subphrases
- Few punctuation characters, some diacritics and stopwords removed. It will match also subphrases (can be subphrases or subpages depending on internal wiki configuration).
- fuzzy
- Similar to normal with typo correction (two typos supported).
- fast-fuzzy
- Experimental fuzzy profile (may be removed at any time)
- fuzzy-subphrases
- Similar to normal with typo correction (two typos supported). It will match also subphrases (can be subphrases or subpages depending on internal wiki configuration).
- 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, fuzzy-subphrases, normal, normal-subphrases, strict
- Default: engine_autoselect
- Search for page titles beginning with meaning.
- api.php?action=query&list=prefixsearch&pssearch=meaning [open in sandbox]