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Wikipedia Article Scraper: Search, Summaries & Text

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Search Wikipedia, fetch article summaries (extracts) or random articles across languages. Keyless, for RAG and reference data.

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What it does

Clean, structured access to the world's largest encyclopedia (60M+ articles, 300+ languages) via the official MediaWiki REST + Action APIs.

Modes

Mode	What it returns
search	Search results with article summaries
article	Full summary/extract of one article by title
random	Pull random articles (useful for sampling)

Example Inputs

Search for AI

{ "mode": "search", "query": "artificial intelligence", "searchLimit": 10, "language": "en" }

Get one article

{ "mode": "article", "query": "Transformer (machine learning)", "language": "en" }

Spanish-language random articles

{ "mode": "random", "searchLimit": 5, "language": "es" }

Output

Per article: title, display_title, description, thumbnail_url, extract, url, categories, language, search_query, scraped_at.

Use Cases

RAG knowledge bases: extract-rich article summaries for AI pipelines
Content research: facts and background across any topic
Multilingual data: pull article summaries in 300+ languages
Education / reference: structured encyclopedia content

Data Source

Wikipedia / MediaWiki — free, keyless, CC BY-SA content.

Limitations

Summaries are the intro/extract (not full article text)
Respects rate limits (the actor paces requests)

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