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.
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 "language": "en",10 "queries": ["web scraping"],11 "titles": [12 "Web scraping",13 "Large language model",14 ],15 "categories": [],16 "maxResults": 20,17 "articleContent": "intro",18 "fetchArticlesForSearch": False,19 "includeCategories": True,20 "includeSections": False,21 "includeLinks": False,22 "pageviews": "last30",23 "topViews": [],24 "wikidataIds": ["Q665452"],25 "wikidataSearch": [],26 "includeRawClaims": False,27 "maxConcurrency": 4,28 "maxRunSecs": 240,29 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },30}31
32# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish33run = client.actor("insight.solutions/wikipedia-api").call(run_input=run_input)34
35# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)36print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")37for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():38 print(item)39
40# 📚 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 & Wikidata API — Articles, Search & Pageviews API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: