Wikipedia Scraper
Pricing
from $0.50 / 1,000 page fetcheds
Search Wikipedia and fetch article detail — summary, full plain-text extract, description, categories, thumbnail, coordinates, Wikidata ID — in any language, via the official MediaWiki API. No key, no proxy.
You can access the Wikipedia Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "searchQueries": ["machine learning"],10 "pageTitles": [],11}12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("bgfc97/wikipedia-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Wikipedia Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: