Wger Exercise Database Scraper
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Wger Exercise Database Scraper
Scrape the complete wger.de open exercise database — 845+ exercises with multilingual names, muscle groups, equipment, images, categories, and license data. No authentication required. Drop-in seed data for fitness apps, personal trainers, and LLM exercise tools.
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Scrape the complete wger.de open exercise database — 845+ exercises with multilingual names, muscle groups, equipment, images, categories, and full license attribution. No API key or authentication required.
What data does it scrape?
For each exercise the scraper returns:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
exercise_id | Numeric wger exercise ID |
uuid | Stable UUID |
name | Exercise name in the requested language |
description_html | Full HTML description / instructions |
category | Exercise category (Cardio, Legs, Arms, etc.) |
language | Language ID used for this record |
primary_muscles | Primary muscles targeted (newline-separated) |
secondary_muscles | Secondary muscles (newline-separated) |
equipment | Required equipment (newline-separated) |
images | Exercise images with main-flag and license author |
videos | Exercise videos |
aliases | Alternative names for the exercise |
variations | Variation group ID if the exercise belongs to a set |
license | Content license (e.g. CC-BY-SA 4) |
license_author | Attribution author for the content |
created | Creation timestamp |
last_update | Last update timestamp |
Why use this?
- No competitor: no other Apify actor wraps the wger exercise database
- License-compliant output:
licenseandlicense_authorfields are surfaced on every record so downstream apps stay CC/AGPL-compliant - Multilingual: set
languageto any wger language ID (1=German, 2=English, 19=Spanish, etc.) - Drop-in seed data: flat, query-ready records for fitness apps, personal trainer tools, LLM exercise recommendation systems
Usage
Default run — fetches English exercises:
Full English database:
German exercises:
Language IDs
Common language IDs supported by wger:
| ID | Language |
|---|---|
| 1 | German |
| 2 | English |
| 4 | Norwegian |
| 5 | French |
| 6 | Czech |
| 7 | Spanish |
For the full list see the wger language API.
Input parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
language | Integer | 2 | Language ID (2 = English) |
maxItems | Integer | all | Maximum records to return |
Data source
Data comes from the wger.de REST API — a free, open-source workout manager with CC/AGPL-licensed exercise content. The scraper uses polite rate limiting (600ms between requests) and is well within fair-use boundaries for read-only enrichment.
