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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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from $3.00 / 1,000 results

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Compute Edge

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Bookmarked

Total users

Monthly active users

14 days ago

Last modified

Categories

Lead generation

You can access the Wikimedia On This Day 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.

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MCP

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Wikimedia On This Day Scraper OpenAPI definition

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You can download the OpenAPI definitions for Wikimedia On This Day Scraper from the options below:

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