Wikipedia Scraper — Articles, Summaries & Images
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Wikipedia Scraper — Articles, Summaries & Images
Scrape Wikipedia by search query or title: summary, description, full plain text, images, coordinates and canonical URL. Any language. No API key.
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Hichem Ben Moussa
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Turn Wikipedia into clean structured data. Search by keyword or pass exact article titles and get back summary, short description, full plain text, images, coordinates and canonical URL — in any language. No API key, no login.
Perfect for building datasets, powering RAG / LLM knowledge bases, enriching entities, or research.
What you can do with it
- 🧠 Build a knowledge base / RAG corpus from clean article text
- 🏷️ Enrich entities (companies, people, places) with descriptions and images
- 🌍 Scrape the same topic across languages (
en,es,fr,ar,ja…) - 📍 Pull coordinates for places to plot on a map
Input
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
searchQuery | string | Free-text search, e.g. machine learning. Returns the top matching articles. |
pageTitles | array | Exact titles, e.g. Apple Inc., Alan Turing. Overrides the search query. |
language | string | Wikipedia language code (en, es, fr, de, ar, ja …). |
maxResults | integer | Maximum number of articles to fetch. |
includeFullText | boolean | Attach the full plain text (not just the summary). |
proxyConfiguration | object | Optional proxy for high-volume runs. |
Example — search
{ "searchQuery": "machine learning", "maxResults": 5 }
Example — specific articles with full text
{ "pageTitles": ["Alan Turing", "Apple Inc."], "includeFullText": true }
Output
Each item is one article:
{"title": "Apple Inc.","description": "American multinational technology company","extract": "Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California…","type": "standard","lang": "en","thumbnail": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/…/320px-Apple_logo.svg.png","image": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/…/Apple_logo.svg.png","coordinates": null,"pageId": 856,"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.","timestamp": "2026-07-20T10:00:00Z"}
With includeFullText: true each item also has a fullText field with the complete plain-text article.
Notes
- Data comes from the official Wikipedia REST & MediaWiki APIs.
- Set
languageto scrape any Wikipedia edition; titles and search are language-specific.