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Wikipedia Scraper

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from $2.00 / 1,000 article scrapeds

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Wikipedia Scraper

Wikipedia Scraper

Search Wikipedia and return article summaries or full text via the public REST API. Supports 300+ languages. Useful for knowledge extraction, research, content generation, and entity enrichment.

Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 article scrapeds

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Search Wikipedia and return article summaries or full text. Supports 300+ languages (any Wikipedia subdomain).

Two modes:

  • summary - top hits with description + introduction extract (fast, ~300-500 words per article).
  • fulltext - full plain-text article extract (slower, all sections).

Useful for knowledge extraction, research, content generation, entity enrichment, dataset bootstrapping.

Free vs. paid

  • Free plan: 5 clearly-labelled mock articles.
  • Paid plan: real, live Wikipedia data.

Input

FieldTypeDescription
searchTermString (required)Keyword or article title.
langStringWikipedia language code. Default en. Common: en, pt, es, fr, de, ja, ru, zh.
modeStringsummary or fulltext. Default summary.
maxItemsIntegerDefault 10, max 200.
debugBooleanVerbose logs.

Output

{
"title": "Apify",
"displayTitle": "Apify",
"description": "Web scraping and automation platform",
"extract": "Apify is a Czech web scraping and automation platform...",
"lang": "en",
"wordCount": 312,
"wikidataId": "Q90089832",
"pageId": 60018244,
"type": "standard",
"timestamp": "2026-05-15T18:23:04Z",
"coordinates": null,
"thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/...",
"originalImage": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/...",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apify"
}

Pricing

$0.002/article. Cheap because Wikipedia's API is fast and the actor author pays no proxy cost.

Limitations

  • The actor obeys a polite ~250ms delay between requests.
  • fulltext mode is significantly slower for long articles and bills the same per article.

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