API:Allusers

MediaWiki version: 1.11

Allusers Enumerate all registered users, ordered by username This module cannot be used as a generator. Prefix au Required rights none Post only? No Generated help Current

Parameters

from : The user name to start enumerating from to : The user name to stop enumerating at prefix : Search for all users that begin with this value dir : Direction to sort in. One value: ascending, descending. Default: ascending group : Limit users to given group name(s). Possible values: bot, sysop, bureaucrat (+ any other group that is defined on the wiki). This is different for every wiki; see the API help or action=paraminfo for a list of possible values excludegroup : Exclude users in given group name(s). Can not be used together with 'group'. rights : Limit users to given right(s) prop : What pieces of information to include. blockinfo : Adds the information about a current block on the user groups : Lists groups that the user is in. This uses more server resources and may return fewer results than the limit implicitgroups: Lists all the groups the user is automatically in rights : Lists rights that the user has editcount : Adds the edit count of the user registration : Adds the timestamp of when the user registered if available (may be blank) 1.12+ limit : How many total user names to return. No more than 500 (5000 for bots) allowed. (Default: 10) witheditsonly: Only list users who have made edits activeusers : Only list users active in the last 30 days(s)

Example

Show a list of usernames starting with Y (or whichever sorts first after that)

api.php?action=query&list=allusers&aufrom=Y [try in ApiSandbox]

Result

<api> <query> <allusers> <u userid="3634417" name="Y" /> <u userid="53928" name="Y (usurped)" /> <u userid="7341556" name="Y 12345 ut" /> <u userid="10969800" name="Y 19" /> <u userid="9302968" name="Y 1praneeth" /> <u userid="5191615" name="Y 20" /> <u userid="8724565" name="Y 2112 Y" /> <u userid="2941099" name="Y 4 yellow" /> <u userid="13676048" name="Y 6" /> <u userid="7423920" name="Y A D A carlos alberto" /> </allusers> </query> <query-continue> <allusers aufrom="Y A N K O" /> </query-continue> </api>

Show a list of first 5 sysops

api.php?action=query&list=allusers&augroup=sysop&aulimit=5 [try in ApiSandbox]

Result
<api> <query> <allusers> <u userid="111640" name="(aeropagitica)" /> <u userid="99351" name="23skidoo" /> <u userid="3030741" name="28bytes" /> <u userid="365061" name="2over0" /> <u userid="7044616" name="5 albert square" /> </allusers> </query> <query-continue> <allusers aufrom="7" /> </query-continue> </api>

Error Codes

Code	Info
augroup-excludegroup	group and excludegroup cannot be used together