Wikipedia Article Scraper

Extract structured data from Wikipedia articles using the official MediaWiki API. Supports 300+ languages. No authentication needed.

Features

• 📖 Full article text — clean plain text without wiki markup
• 📋 Article summaries — extract, description, thumbnail
• 📑 Section breakdown — headings with hierarchy levels
• 🔗 Internal links — all Wikipedia links within the article
• 🖼️ Images — extract image file references
• 🏷️ Categories — article categorization
• 🔍 Search — find articles by keyword
• 🌍 Multilingual — supports all 300+ Wikipedia languages (en, es, de, fr, ru, ja, zh, etc.)
• ⚡ Official API — no blocking, no CAPTCHA

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
articleTitles	string[]	[]	Article titles to scrape
searchQueries	string[]	[]	Search and scrape matching articles
maxSearchResults	number	10	Results per search query
language	string	"en"	Wikipedia language code
includeFullText	boolean	true	Include complete article text
includeSections	boolean	true	Include section headings
includeLinks	boolean	false	Extract internal links
includeImages	boolean	false	Extract images
includeCategories	boolean	true	Extract categories

Example Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["machine learning"],
  "articleTitles": ["Artificial intelligence", "GPT-4"],
  "maxSearchResults": 5,
  "language": "en",
  "includeFullText": true,
  "includeCategories": true
}

Output

{
  "title": "Artificial intelligence",
  "description": "Intelligence of machines",
  "extract": "Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines...",
  "pageUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
  "wordCount": 15234,
  "categories": ["Artificial intelligence", "Computational neuroscience", ...],
  "sections": [{"heading": "History", "level": 2}, ...],
  "fullText": "Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence..."
}

Use Cases

• Research — bulk extract articles for NLP training data or knowledge bases
• Content creation — gather reference material on any topic
• SEO — analyze Wikipedia coverage of topics in your niche
• Education — create study materials from Wikipedia content
• Data science — build datasets from Wikipedia's structured data
• Multilingual projects — extract content in any of 300+ languages