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Wikipedia Article Scraper

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Scrape Wikipedia articles via public MediaWiki API — no proxy, no auth. Modes: summary (extract + thumbnail), full_text, search, random, category. Supports 250+ language editions.

Pricing

Pay per usage

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Developer

Hojun Lee

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Monthly active users

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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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