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from $3.00 / 1,000 results

Wikimedia On This Day Scraper

Extract historical events, births, deaths, and holidays from Wikimedia's On This Day feed for any date. Includes article summaries and thumbnails. Great for content creation, history apps, and education.

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Wikipedia On This Day — Historical Events Scraper

Extract historical events, notable births, deaths, and holidays for any calendar date from the official Wikimedia "On This Day" feed. Built on Wikipedia's curated daily history feed, this Actor produces clean, structured records perfect for content automation, social-media calendars, news desks, RAG pipelines, and educational apps.

Every day, hundreds of editors curate Wikipedia's "On This Day" page — short summaries of significant events, biographies, and holidays tied to that date. The Wikimedia Foundation exposes the same feed via a public JSON API. This Actor wraps it, supports any language Wikipedia, and lets you batch-pull many dates at once.

What you get

Field	Description
`date`	MM-DD of the entry
`category`	`selected`, `events`, `births`, `deaths`, `holidays`
`year`	Year of the historical event
`yearsAgo`	Computed years since the event
`text`	Short event description
`primaryTitle` / `primaryUrl`	Featured Wikipedia page
`primaryExtract`	Plain-text article summary
`thumbnail` / `originalImage`	Image URLs
`language`	Wikipedia language code used

How to scrape Wikipedia's On This Day feed

Open the Actor and add Dates in MM-DD format — for example ['01-01', '07-04']. Leave empty to use today.
Set Wikipedia Language (e.g., en, es, de, fr, it, ja).
Pick which Categories to keep — by default the Actor returns all five.
Click Start.

Use cases

Social-media editorial calendars — Auto-generate daily "On this day" posts.
News desks — Surface anniversary angles for breaking stories.
AI / LLM enrichment — Feed factual, Wikipedia-grounded date context into RAG systems.
Education — Power daily history widgets and trivia apps.
Brand activations — Tie campaigns to historical anniversaries.

Pricing

Priced at $0.003 per result. A single date in English yields ~500 records — about $1.50 per date plus Apify compute.

Input example

{
  "dates": ["01-01", "07-04", "12-25"],
  "language": "en",
  "categories": ["selected", "events", "births", "deaths", "holidays"]
}

Output example

{
  "date": "01-01",
  "category": "events",
  "year": 2002,
  "yearsAgo": 24,
  "text": "The euro becomes legal tender in 12 European Union member states.",
  "primaryTitle": "Euro",
  "primaryUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro",
  "thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/.../1024px-Euro_banknotes.jpg",
  "language": "en"
}

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FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The Wikimedia Foundation feed is public.

Which languages are supported? Any language with a Wikipedia edition that has an On This Day feed (en, es, de, fr, it, ja, ru, zh and more).

How fresh is the content? Updated daily by Wikipedia editors.

Legal

Data is sourced from public Wikimedia REST APIs under the Wikimedia API Terms of Use. Content is released under CC-BY-SA. The Actor performs no authentication bypass and sets a contact-bearing User-Agent.

Support: bciccarelli6@gmail.com

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