Wikipedia Article Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
Scrape Wikipedia articles via public MediaWiki API — no proxy, no auth. Modes: summary (extract + thumbnail), full_text, search, random, category. Supports 250+ language editions.
You can access the Wikipedia Article 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "mode": "summary",10 "titles": [11 "Artificial intelligence",12 "Python (programming language)",13 ],14 "searchQuery": "machine learning",15 "category": "Machine_learning",16 "language": "en",17}18
19# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish20run = client.actor("gochujang/wikipedia-article-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)21
22# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)23print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")24for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():25 print(item)26
27# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Wikipedia Article Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: