Wikipedia Article Scraper

Scrape Wikipedia articles at scale using the public MediaWiki API and REST API — no proxy, no API key, no auth required. Supports 250+ language editions.

Features

Mode	What it does
summary	Short extract + thumbnail image for one or more article titles
full_text	Complete article plain text (all sections)
search	Search by keyword and return a list of matching articles
random	Fetch N random articles
category	List all articles in a Wikipedia category

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	summary	Scraping mode: summary, full_text, search, random, category
titles	string[]	[]	Article titles for summary / full_text modes
searchQuery	string	""	Search keyword (search mode)
category	string	""	Category name without Category: prefix (category mode)
language	string	en	Wikipedia language code (en, ko, ja, de, fr, es, …)
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum articles to return (1–500)
includeImages	boolean	true	Include thumbnail image URL

Example inputs

Fetch article summaries

{
  "mode": "summary",
  "titles": ["Artificial intelligence", "Python (programming language)"],
  "language": "en"
}

Get full article text

{
  "mode": "full_text",
  "titles": ["Quantum computing"],
  "language": "en"
}

Keyword search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "neural network deep learning",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Random articles

{
  "mode": "random",
  "maxItems": 5,
  "language": "ko"
}

Category members

{
  "mode": "category",
  "category": "Machine_learning",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Output

Each item in the dataset:

{
  "title": "Artificial intelligence",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
  "language": "en",
  "summary": "Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines…",
  "text": "…full article text…",
  "thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/…",
  "categories": ["Artificial intelligence", "Computer science"],
  "last_modified": "2026-09-01T00:00:00Z"
}

text is populated only in full_text mode. thumbnail is omitted when includeImages is false.

Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005
Per article scraped	$0.003

Scraping 100 articles costs ~$0.305 (start + 100 × $0.003).

Supported Languages

Any Wikipedia language edition: en, ko, ja, zh, de, fr, es, pt, it, ru, ar, hi, nl, pl, sv, vi, and 240+ more. Pass the two-letter (or longer) ISO language code as language.

Notes

• Uses Wikipedia's REST API for summaries and the MediaWiki Action API for full text, search, random, and category queries.
• No scraping of HTML pages — API responses only.
• Respects Wikipedia's Terms of Use.
• Rate-limited naturally by Wikipedia's API (no aggressive throttling needed).

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