# IvritPedia

> עבריתפדיה — אנציקלופדיה חופשית בעברית
> IvritPedia — A free, open-content Hebrew-language encyclopedia.

IvritPedia is a community-driven Hebrew encyclopedia hosted at ivritpedia.org. Content is written primarily in Hebrew (a right-to-left language) and covers Hebrew language and linguistics, Israeli culture and society, Jewish history and heritage, science, technology, geography, and general encyclopedic knowledge. All content is openly licensed and freely reusable.

For full API documentation, content policy, licensing details, and contributor guidelines, see: https://ivritpedia.org/llms-full.txt

## Browsing

- Home page: https://ivritpedia.org
- Main page: https://ivritpedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%99
- Random article: https://ivritpedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
- All pages: https://ivritpedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages
- Categories: https://ivritpedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories
- Recent changes: https://ivritpedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
- Sitemap: https://ivritpedia.org/sitemap/sitemap-index-ivritpedia.xml

## Retrieving Article Content

To get the plain text of any article (best for LLMs), use the TextExtracts API:

- Plain text: https://ivritpedia.org/api.php?action=query&titles=ARTICLE_TITLE&prop=extracts&explaintext=true&format=json
- HTML: https://ivritpedia.org/api.php?action=query&titles=ARTICLE_TITLE&prop=extracts&format=json
- With intro only: add `&exintro=true` to get just the lead section

Replace ARTICLE_TITLE with the URL-encoded Hebrew page title.

## Searching

- Full-text search: https://ivritpedia.org/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=SEARCH_TERM&format=json
- Search with snippets: add `&srprop=snippet` to get highlighted match context
- Prefix search (autocomplete): https://ivritpedia.org/api.php?action=opensearch&search=SEARCH_TERM&format=json

## Listing Pages

- All pages: https://ivritpedia.org/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&format=json
- Pages in category: https://ivritpedia.org/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:CATEGORY_NAME&format=json
- Page metadata: https://ivritpedia.org/api.php?action=query&titles=ARTICLE_TITLE&prop=info|categories&format=json

## Technical Details

- Platform: MediaWiki
- Primary language: Hebrew (he) — content is in RTL (right-to-left) script
- Character encoding: UTF-8 (full Unicode support including Hebrew, Arabic, and emoji)
- API rate limit: 20 requests/second
- API documentation: https://ivritpedia.org/api.php (self-documenting)

## Contact

- General: support@ivritpedia.org
- Security: security@ivritpedia.org
- Security policy: https://ivritpedia.org/.well-known/security.txt