Wikipedia & Wikidata API — Articles, Search & Pageviews
Pricing
from $0.36 / 1,000 articles
Wikipedia search, article text (intro or full), descriptions, categories and Wikidata ids; daily human pageviews and a day's top 1,000; Wikidata entities with flattened properties. Any language edition, no API key, no browser. Diagnostics and empty runs are free.
You can access the Wikipedia & Wikidata API — Articles, Search & Pageviews programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "language": "en",12 "queries": [13 "web scraping"14 ],15 "titles": [16 "Web scraping",17 "Large language model"18 ],19 "categories": [],20 "maxResults": 20,21 "articleContent": "intro",22 "fetchArticlesForSearch": false,23 "includeCategories": true,24 "includeSections": false,25 "includeLinks": false,26 "pageviews": "last30",27 "topViews": [],28 "wikidataIds": [29 "Q665452"30 ],31 "wikidataSearch": [],32 "includeRawClaims": false,33 "maxConcurrency": 4,34 "maxRunSecs": 240,35 "proxyConfiguration": {36 "useApifyProxy": true37 }38};39
40// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish41const run = await client.actor("insight.solutions/wikipedia-api").call(input);42
43// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)44console.log('Results from dataset');45console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);46const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();47items.forEach((item) => {48 console.dir(item);49});50
51// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Wikipedia & Wikidata API — Articles, Search & Pageviews API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: