Wikipedia Article Watch & Scraper API
Pricing
from $0.60 / 1,000 articles
Wikipedia scraper and API: current article summaries, full text, sections and pageviews, or only the articles that changed since your last run. Never charged for failed or unchanged rows. Attribution on every row; articles about people are left out.
You can access the Wikipedia Article Watch & Scraper API programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "articles": [12 "Artificial intelligence",13 "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change",14 "Bitcoin"15 ],16 "mode": "watch",17 "stateName": "example-watchlist",18 "includeUnchanged": true,19 "maxResults": 10,20 "includeFullText": false21};22
23// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish24const run = await client.actor("mouadapi/wikipedia-articles").call(input);25
26// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)27console.log('Results from dataset');28console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);29const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();30items.forEach((item) => {31 console.dir(item);32});33
34// 📚 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 Article Watch & Scraper API API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: